The snow has packed ice-hard, a freezing wind snatches the breath and the sky is a relentless iron slab.
Then, Arthur Kinloch, 51, took a 20-pound tamper, a big iron slab on the end of a pole, and hammered the steaming bed of asphalt flat.
Spectra of neutrons from both the bare source and transmitted through a 20 cm thick iron slab were measured with an NE-213 scintillation detector in the energy range 3.5 35 MeV by the pulse height technique.
One apparent accommodation between old Chinese and West Asian tradition is the fangxiang, a set of 16 iron slabs suspended in a wooden frame in the manner of the old sets of tuned stones.
In some cases the excavations of the warehouses brought to light also raw materials, such as iron slabs and, in one case, slags and traces of iron forging were found close to one of the warehouses dated to the 5th century.
When that's full (or the job, here just a sample text, is complete), Abel slides the composed type from the galley onto a smooth, cast-iron slab: the stone.
But no investor is thought likely to want only the blast furnaces, which transform iron ore into slab steel.
Using technology tested over and over in battle, the company offers meals like lasagna and flame-broiled turkey in styrofoam containers that heat up when the diner sets off a chemical reaction between a jigger of salt water and a slab of iron and magnesium.
The cyclone drove a small vessel ashore at nearby Banana Island; in addition, a teenage girl was severely impaled by a flying slab of iron in downtown Innisfail, later dying as a result of her injuries.
As day broke, rescuers aided by international teams set out to dig through rubble of buildings — concrete slabs, bricks, iron beams, wood — to look for survivors.
The wood stoves were also used to heat irons for pressing clothes, actual six- or seven-pound slabs of iron that had to be scrubbed, sanded, and scraped every few minutes to remove the soot.
