Electrum was also used in the making of ancient drinking vessels and coins.

Electrum was often referred to as white gold in ancient times but could be more accurately described as " pale gold ".

Electrum was much better for coinage than gold, mostly because it was harder and more durable, but also because techniques for refining gold were not widespread at the time.

Electrum, a rare amalgam of gold and silver, was used by Tertullian as an example of a tertium quid, by which he meant a mixture with composite properties.

Later, when attacked by Decepticons coated in the invulnerable alloy Electrum, Omega was badly damaged, but when the Autobots responded in kind, Omega was also coated in the alloy and defeated their foes.

: A special " Electrum " version, covered in gold chrome-plating, was also released in 2001, commemorating the cartoon episode " The Golden Lagoon " ( in which the Transformers coat themselves with a metallic gold substance and become temporarily impervious to their various weapons ).

In February 2008, the name " Universal Electric Vehicle " was dropped in favor of " Electrum ".

Similar coinage was adopted and manufactured to their own standards in nearby cities of Ionia, including Mytilene and Phokaia ( using coins of Electrum ) and Aegina ( using silver ) during the 6th century BC.

Electrum is believed to have been used in coins circa 600 BC in Lydia under the reign of Alyattes II.

According to Aleister Crowley's instructions for the A ∴ A ∴, the pentacle is a disc of wax, gold, silver-gilt or Electrum Magicum, eight inches diameter and half an inch thick ; the Neophyte should " by his understanding and ingenium devise a symbol to represent the Universe ", and engrave this on the disc.

Electrum coins were not standardized in weight and are considered by opponents as badges, medals or ceremonial objects issued by priests, rather than coins ( actually the oldest of them have been discovered not in Lydia, but in an ancient Greek temple of Ephesos, a city colony built by the ancient Greeks in what is now Turkey ).

* Electrum lion coins of the ancient Lydians ( about 600BC )

Other coins made of Electrum ( a naturally occurring alloy of silver and gold ) were manufactured on a larger scale about 650 BC in Lydia ( on the coast of what is now Turkey ).

Electrum coinage of Phocaea, 340-335 BC.

** Plate IV: Ionian Electrum, Phocaea, 6th, 5th and 4th century BC

** Plate V: Ionian Electrum, Phocaea, 5th and 4th century BC

Electrum is mentioned in an expedition sent by Pharaoh Sahure of the Fifth dynasty of Egypt ( see Sahure ).

Electrum consists primarily of gold and silver but is sometimes found with traces of platinum, copper and other metals.

Electrum coin of the Byzantine Emperor Alexius I Comnenus.

Electrum is a naturally occurring alloy of gold and silver, with trace amounts of copper and other metals.

Electrum is possibly referred to three times in the Bible ( i. e. if the Septuagint's translation of the uncertain term ח ַ ש ְׁ מ ַ ל is accurate ).

A number of spin-off companies were formed by ex-OWL employees, including InfoAccess ( a management buy-out of OWL International Inc .), Electrum Multimedia Ltd., Data Discoveries Ltd. and Digital Bridges Ltd.

currently manufactures a series under proprietary technology called the Electrum which consists of two vehicles.

These included the Spoiler, Elan, and Europa basses, and the Electrum and California Special guitars.

Tiamat's church has a rigid hierarchy, beginning with the lowly Custodians of the Copper Chalice and continuing with, in ascending rank, the Defenders of the Silver Shield, Wardens of the Electrum Mail, Guardians of the Gold Scepter, Keepers of the Platinum Crown, Scales of the White Wyrm, Horns of the Black Beast, Wings of the Green Gargantua, Talons of the Blue Baatoran, Breaths of the Red Ravager, and the Dark Scaly Ones leading them all.

The institute is located in the Kista district of Stockholm, with the main office in the Electrum building.

It was a trick they used to try and conceal their identity when they followed trucks to check their speed.

There was a shattering, cracking sound as the concrete started to buckle, the air filled with dust and flying debris, and everyone in the room -- men and women hit the floor and used the desks as turtlebacks, as ordered.

He went to Key West every fall and winter and was the only man in town who did not know that his title of `` Commodore '' was never used without irony.

He said, lapsing into the profanity he often used when away from his parents and especially when he was with Charles.

The last point was soon to be included in the `` seditious '' remarks used against him in Parliament.

The governor was not used to having his integrity questioned, and he promptly passed the charges on to Woodruff, demanding that Woodruff answer them.

His accomplishments, and the fact that he was resident, did much to offset the unkind words travelers used to describe Little Rock after a visit there.

It was going to be hard going all the way because he hadn't written seriously for a while, except for a few stories, was tired of the old method of realismo he had so successfully used in The Sky Is Red.

Gloria ( surname: Ziraldo ), circa 30, who was born in Italy and once did `` chorus work '' in Toronto, has been around longer than most of the others, wistfully remembers the old days when `` we used to get the seamen from the ships, you know, with big turtleneck sweaters and handkerchiefs and all.

This, of course, was the sort of thing that used to take place in Southern cities -- putting white houses of prostitution with colored girls in colored neighborhoods and carrying them on openly.

It was a word he was proud of, a word that meant much to him, and he used it with great pleasure, almost as if it were an exclusive possession, and more: he sensed himself to be very highly educated, four cuts above any of the folks back home.

He had ridden hard from Boston, and he was not used to horseback.

It was just me and Eileen getting drunk together like we used to in the old days, and me staring at her across the table crazy to get my hands on her partly because I wanted to wring her neck because she was so ornery but mostly because she was so wonderful to touch.

Bicycle gear-sets he had once used as the basis of the design for the Camden Cycly Company plant hung on a rope in one corner, and over his desk, next to several old and dusty hats, was a clean pair of roller skates which he occasionally used up and down in front of his house.

A wall-stabilized high-current arc source was constructed and used to study transition probabilities of atomic hydrogen and oxygen.

It was determined that the hours of sunrise and sunset, respectively, should be used for this purpose.

When he showed this model as his `` solution '' as to how the Howe sewing machine operated, he was told he was `` wrong '', and discovered to his amazement that the Howe Machine, which was unknown to him in detail, used two threads while the one that he had perfected used only one.