As the price falls, that tonnage is likely to rise, for cheap titanium has many potential uses, such as making car components that would be lighter than steel ones, thus saving fuel.
But all that tonnage weighs a ship down, and cargo loads declined after lake levels began a rapid decline in the late 1990's.
With the additional displacement, the General Board was incredulous that a tonnage increase of 10000 LT would only allow the addition of 6 knots over the South Dakotas.
The Navy determined that the tonnage contest between divisions was not at fault, although the Judge Advocate warned that "the loading of explosives should never be a matter of competition".
"We formed Comag because we wanted the tonnage that comes from us and Hearst," Mr. Florio said.
However, this has not meant a decline in his supply, he said, because the number of passengers is still on the rise, keeping the tonnage that flows into his huge store, Unclaimed Baggage in Scottsboro, Ala., pretty steady.
Not only are they back, but they're also about to resume the school year grind -- rising at ungodly hours, strapping on backpacks equaling the tonnage that Hannibal's elephants lugged across the Alps and studying cosines, logarithms, chemical valences, Latin and the other things you've found so useful as you've gone through life.
Being oxides, laterites are not amenable to conventional concentration processes, so that large tonnages must be smelted.
Each elephant has a maximum tonnage that they move each year, and have strict limits to daily and weekly work that cannot be exceeded – in 2010 these limits were set to no more than eight hours a day, with a break at noon, and no more than five days of work in a week [ 36].
The tonnage that was sunk by the German U-boats over that nine months was significant.
Notice that our predicted tonnage of rhenium mineralization for skarn W Mo systems is on the same order of magnitude as the observed tonnage in a typical skarn W Mo systems (Table 5).
