Alumina, grain, gypsum, logs and wood chips, for instance, are bulk cargoes.

Alumina aerogels are also being considered by NASA for capturing of hypervelocity particles ; a formulation doped with gadolinium and terbium could fluoresce at the particle impact site, with amount of fluorescence dependent on impact energy.

Alumina on its own cannot easily be made glassy with current techniques, however with the addition of a second compound many types of aluminate glasses can be formed.

Vedanta Alumina Limited ( VAL ), a subsidiary of Sterlite Industries, a major aluminium processor has made major investments by establishing an 1 MTPA Alumina Refinery and 75 MW Captive Power Plant at Lanjigarh.

This comes with a similar project from Canadian start-up Global Alumina trying to come with a 2 billion dollar alumina plant in the same region.

The company's final corporate structure before takeover was formed in 2003 by a demerger that split off the aluminium operations to form Alumina Limited, separate from what was to be known as WMC Resources ( with a separate ASX code of WMR ).

Alumina and coke shipped from Jamaica and Australia would berth at the company's private jetty in Holyhead harbour.

The railroad's traffic largely comes from aluminum products from Alcoa World Alumina and Chemicals.

Alumina nanoparticles at 0. 1 % can increase the critical heat flux of water by as much as 70 %; the particles form rough porous surface on the cooled object, which encourages formation of new bubbles, and their hydrophilic nature then helps pushing them away, hindering the formation of the steam layer.

The first initiative was with the Alumina Partners of Jamaica known as ALPART.

It is one of the primary business centres in Greater Melbourne, being the headquarters of Foster's, Treasury Wine Estates, Crown Limited, Alumina, Incitec Pivot, The Herald and Weekly Times ( including the Herald Sun ), as well as regional offices of many major corporations, in a cluster of towers with over 340, 000 square metres of office space in 2008.

Alumina's only business activity is as the owner of a 40 % share in a joint venture with Alcoa called Alcoa World Alumina and Chemicals, abbreviated to AWAC.

In March 2010 it was announced that the operators of Loy Yang A ( Loy Yang Power ) signed a contract with Alcoa World Alumina and Chemicals Australia for the supply of electricity to power aluminium smelters at Portland and Point Henry until 2036.

Recently, the president of Guinea, Lansana Conte, signed an agreement with RUSAL privatizing the bauxite and aluminum complex in Fria run by the Alumina Company of Guinea.

This system feeds bauxite through the difficult terain of the Daring Ranges to the Alumina refinery at Worsley.

Giles expanded Elders into Gove Alumina and Robe River mining ventures and launched Elders Finance and Investment Co. in 1970.

In 1963, Queensland Alumina Limited established its alumina refinery on the site of the old meatworks.

* Alumina Espanola S. A. plant at " San Cibrao "

Alumina Limited is a public company listed on the Australian and New York Stock Exchanges.

* 1962: Hindalco Aluminium Plant, Renukoot, Alumina refining-114, 5000 TPA, Aluminium metal-424, 000 TPA.

RTA owns the Weipa Bauxite mine, Yarwun Alumina Refinery, and Bell Bay aluminium smelter.

In July 2007, Hindalco announced it is acquiring the stake of Alcan Inc .' s in the Utkal Alumina Project located in Orissa.

* Alumina Company of Guinea, or ACG, operating the Friguia bauxite-alumina complex in Fria Prefecture.

The largest enterprise of the city, the Achinsk Alumina Plant, belongs to the " Rusal " group.

These materials include: silicon, carbon fiber, carbon nanofibers, filaments, carbon nanotubes, SiO < sub > 2 </ sub >, silicon-germanium, tungsten, silicon carbide, silicon nitride, silicon oxynitride, titanium nitride, and various high-k dielectrics.

The modern ceramic materials, which are classified as advanced ceramics, include silicon carbide and tungsten carbide.

Examples include calcium carbide, silicon carbide, tungsten carbide ( often called simply carbide ), and cementite, each used in key industrial applications.

Both silicon carbide ( also known as carborundum ) and boron carbide are very hard materials and refractory.

Several non-diamond materials, which include cubic zirconia and silicon carbide and are often called diamond simulants, resemble diamond in appearance and many properties.

All channels share a 10 cm telescope, which uses a silicon carbide mirror.

Wöhler was also known for being a co-discoverer of beryllium, silicon and silicon nitride, as well as the synthesis of calcium carbide, among others.

Such FETs are manufactured using variety of materials such as silicon carbide ( SiC ), gallium arsenide ( GaAs ), gallium nitride ( GaN ), and indium gallium arsenide ( InGaAs ).

It does not react with boron, silicon or carbon, and the corresponding boride, silicide or carbide are not known.

They are immune to common corrosion, and can only be sharpened on silicon carbide sandpaper and some grinding wheels.

Green electroluminescence from a point contact on a crystal of silicon carbide | SiC recreates H. J.

Round of Marconi Labs, using a crystal of silicon carbide and a cat's-whisker detector.

In order to provide oxidation resistance for reuse capability, the outer layers of the RCC are converted to silicon carbide.

:* Ceramography – the study of the microstructures of high-temperature materials and refractories, including structural ceramics such as RCC, polycrystalline silicon carbide and transformation toughened ceramics

Carbides of silicon, tungsten, boron and titanium, are among the hardest known materials, and are used as abrasives in cutting and grinding tools.

In electronics, tungsten is used as an interconnect material in integrated circuits, between the silicon dioxide dielectric material and the transistors.

It is used in metallic films, which replace the wiring used in conventional electronics with a coat of tungsten ( or molybdenum ) on silicon.

The problem of short lifetime was traced to evaporation of silicon, used in the tungsten alloy to make the heater wire easier to draw.

Brattain's concerns at Bell Laboratories in the years before World War II were first in the surface physics of tungsten and later in the surfaces of the semiconductors cuprous oxide and silicon.

Typical metals used are molybdenum, platinum, chromium or tungsten ; and the semiconductor would typically be N-type silicon.

A common combination consists of a hard material, such as silicon carbide, Ceramic or tungsten carbide, embedded in the pump casing and a softer material, such as carbon in the rotating seal assembly.

The American Iron and Steel Institute ( AISI ) defines carbon steel as the following: " Steel is considered to be carbon steel when no minimum content is specified or required for chromium, cobalt, molybdenum, nickel, niobium, titanium, tungsten, vanadium or zirconium, or any other element to be added to obtain a desired alloying effect ; when the specified minimum for copper does not exceed 1. 04 percent ; or when the maximum content specified for any of the following elements does not exceed the percentages noted: manganese 1. 65, silicon 0. 60, copper 0. 60.

In addition to aluminum and copper, CMP processes have been developed for polishing tungsten, silicon dioxide, and ( recently ) carbon nanotubes.

During his PhD Alec rebuilt the SEM fitting a magnetic final lens in place of the original electrostatic lens thereby improving the microscope ’ s resolution to about 10 nm, and after examining ion etched surfaces, used the microscope ’ s electron beam for the first time to write patterns, subsequently using ion etching to transfer these patterns into gold, tungsten and silicon structures as small as 40 nm.

Current brain implants are made from a variety of materials such as tungsten, silicon, platinum-iridium, or even stainless steel.

The Bailey system utilized a mixture of tungsten and silicon oxides at temperatures as high as 450 ° C.