Since then researchers have devised new alloys, containing four or more metals, which form metallic glass at much slower cooling rates.The resulting material looks much like any other metal, but it has some unusual properties.
Industrial grinding mills made of hardened steel cannot be used since they release heavy metals into the milled rock, replicating the problems of metallic nanopowders.
All smoky and salty and rich, with that tangy, metallic hit you get from only the freshest offal.
The police officers pulled his shirt up and slowly moved a metallic object down his bare skin.
Against the variegated white shades of its paper background, the Codex's colours are elegantly restricted and make great use of inks and metallic pigments.
It is rather one-dimensional and, like Becks, has a curious metallic aftertaste, but it is not overly sweet and it is correctly dry and hoppy.
A year before O'Donnell's win, Imran Khan ended up having a "Sorry I won the car" t-shirt printed after he was a most unpopular winner of the metallic silver Rover 827 Vitesse.
"I felt the coldness and the metallic aspect of it," Perez, 33, told the Guardian.
They have, for example, come up with an innovative way of hand-foiling wallpapers that produces distressed and highly polished finishes in a range of metallic hues.
Silver is quite inert, but has a lower electrode potential than gold and so does react with some foods and indeed the mouth, producing a mild metallic taste.
It was making an odd noise as if the engine was misfiring, with the rotor blades sounding fine for several beats before an odd metallic grating noise could be heard, and that sequence of sounds continued, he said, as it flew.
