Platinum-iridium alloys (5 to 10 percent iridium) are readily workable metals that are much harder and stiffer and more resistant to chemical attack than the soft pure platinum.
The formation of oxides, nitrides and carbides must be avoided to yield workable metals, this is normally achieved by the Kroll process.
The most workable of metals, gold has been forged, chased, embossed, engraved, inlayed, cast, and in the form of gold leaf used to gild metals, woods, leather, and parchment.
Bioremediation using microbes may be the only cheap and workable technology to remediate metal contaminants in Antarctica and other cold regions.
To design a workable LMPFC, one must understand how liquid metal interacts with solid underlying structures.
Unfortunately, they lurk in the part of the table known as the rare-earth metals and, as that name suggests, workable deposits of them are scarce.
In summary, pretexturing by metal, oxide or polymer [17] molds is workable to guide the growth the PAAs, but it is a complicated process, and it is also very difficult to get ultrasmall nanopores since it is hard to prepattern the surface with <10 nm textures.
The reason mercury was so popular is because it readily forms stable amalgams with a number of other metals, particularly silver and gold, making them workable at lower temperatures, and these amalgams have been the source of many instances of mercury poisoning.
The group experimented with various metals, plastics, papers and inks to design a workable two-step process.
