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When made on Earth, gravity can cause defects in materials that should be absent in space.
Superconductivity is the complete disappearance of electric resistance in materials that are cooled to extremely low temperatures.
It is an expensive and time-consuming effort because asbestos is often found in materials that are difficult to remove, like wall covering and joint casings.
The interior is restrained in design and executed in materials that seem both higher in quality and better tailored than most cars in this class.
Lintels composed of materials that are weak in bending, such as stone, must be short, while lintels in materials that are strong in bending, such as steel, may span far greater openings.
As a result, cement-making is thought to account for some 5-10% of global carbon dioxide emissions.As concern over greenhouse-gas emissions has risen, so too has interest in materials that can replace Portland cement.
In materials that are electric conductors, some of the electrons are not bound to individual atoms but are free to move through the material; their motion constitutes an electric current.
Efforts to make analogues of spider silks, however, have resulted in materials that are not much different from other polymers, said David Porter, a scientist at the University of Sheffield in England who works with a group at Oxford that studies the biology of silk making.
Both also result in materials that have, in some sense, no resistance in the case of a superfluid, this means zero viscosity and frictionless flow.Like the medicine prize, the chemistry prize was awarded for work that might as easily have come under another heading in this case medicine itself.
Drilling by laser, although costly in energy since material must be melted and vaporized to be removed, is used to cut small holes (0.005 to 0.05 inch [0.13 to 1.3 millimetres]) in materials that are too difficult to machine by traditional methods.
