The wet-sieving of sediments on the tonne scale has been used, probably since the mid-1800s, to search for Mesozoic mammal teeth and other microvertebrate fossils.
It is part of a suite of instruments on the one-tonne robot, which landed two weeks ago in a deep equatorial depression known as Gale Crater.
And the current fairly sluggish sorting-out of Thyssen's peculiarly diverse collection of 336 businesses would not be speeded up.On the other hand, a limited deal would still do some good--especially for Krupp, which, according to Salomon Brothers, lost DM208m on the 4.9m tonnes of steel it produced last year, compared with the DM242m profit that Thyssen made on its output of 9.3m tonnes.
According to Isabel Meza, head of integrated management at Adelca, by importing fewer billets, they are saving $12m£7.6m6m) on the 20,000 tonnes of steel they produce every month.
A tight arena crammed into an iconic location on Horse Guards Parade, played on the 5,000 tonnes of sand brought in for the occasion and presented with as much razzmatazz as organisers could muster, it was one of the feelgood destinations of the Games.
It's possible that AquaBounty Canada could pay a royalty on the 4.5 tonnes it sold last year, repaying some of the 2009 ACOA grant but that's speculation, given that the terms of the financing are confidential.
It's not so much the rubbish that gets washed up on the sandy shore as the tonnes of untreated sewage that pour into the sea from the nearby Rocinha favela or shanty town.
The metre-tonne-second system of units (MTS) was based on the metre, tonne and second – the unit of force was the sthène and the unit of pressure was the pièze.
As I write, we're rolling in a gentle swell just north of the equator on the 32,000-tonne container ship, the Hansa Rendsburg, a 175m-long Chinese-built vessel with what one of the crew described charmingly as a 'deciduous' engine - it sheds parts, apparently.
Engineers intend shortly to switch on the 6.6-tonne spacecraft's new sophisticated communications payload.
