The word 'chromium' is a correct and usable term in written English
It can be used as a noun to refer to a reddish-silver metallic element with atomic number 24 on the periodic table. For example, "The metal, chromium, is essential for many industrial processes."
Well, not quite: materials scientists in France, Germany and the US had, unbeknown to him, already discovered that adding chromium to steel changed the electrode potential of its surface by creating a stable and transparent oxide layer, making it resistant to rusting.
It has oil, gold, chromium, iron ore and a host of other minerals.
He goes on to recount how the allure of emeralds and rubies is provided by chromium, which not only colours the stones but also fluoresces with red light, so that the best gems appear to flicker with inner fire.The book is not only a cultural history of the elements, it is also a lament to the loss of science as a hobby.
Last September the authorities banned its SK-II beauty products after they found traces of chromium and neodymium.
And engineers have installed sub-surface chemical "walls" designed to trap radioactive chromium that is creeping beneath the ground towards the Columbia River.There are hopes that a process supposed to last nearly 50 years will now be largely completed by 2012.
A microclaw's size a mere six-millionths of a metre across means that each chip can have thousands rather than hundreds of connections with the outside world.In this section Left-wing butterflies Scaling the icy peaks Concrete proposals Sharp claws ReprintsMicroclaws are made by coating the silicon of the package with a thin film made from an alloy of molybdenum and chromium.
We are soon crossing the Great Dyke, a mineral-rich band running from north to south, 550km long and 11km wide, that contains some of the world's richest deposits of platinum, gold, silver, chromium, nickel and asbestos.
It normally only absorbs about 7% of the energy from sunlight, but when doped with chromium this figure increases to more than 67%.Dr Yabe has built a demonstration plant at Chitose, Japan, in partnership with Mitsubishi.
His was one of the few NGOs to be recognised officially by Beijing, and in 2011, for the first time, a court admitted his suit against a factory that had dumped 5,000 tons of chromium waste in Yunnan province.
The two camps were dubbed the Malthusians (after a British economist who forecast that population would outstrip food supply) and the Cornucopians, thanks to their belief in endless abundance.Faced with a challenge from Mr Simon, Mr Ehrlich selected five metals copper, chromium, nickel, tin and tungsten whose prices he thought would rise in real terms over the following ten years.
It contains chromium to resist corrosion, and molybdenum and tungsten for strength.The Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation has devised a process using heat and high pressure to make synthetic rock out of radioactive waste and minerals including calcium, titanium and zirconium.
