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Scientific and technological advances suggest that it might best be used not as a fuel but as a chemical raw material Many important properties of metals are now understood to result from a kind ...

A Résumé of Some of the Researches Described at the Most Recent Semi-Annual Meeting of the 400 Astronomers of the North American Continent Why Metals Can be Worked, Why Graphite is a Lubricant ...

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