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.
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.
I grew up looking at oily concrete, cast-iron railings and slabs of fatty corned beef on flaking white bread".
But no investor is thought likely to want only the blast furnaces, which transform iron ore into slab steel.
Around the base, many iron slags, some with embedded burnt clay, vitrified brick-bats, many terracotta pipes with vitrified mouths and a granite slab, which may have been the anvil, have been recovered.
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.
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.
