Its value as a precious metal was long considered second only to gold.

* Its relatively low melting point () means that it is easy to melt the metal, so that the reaction can occur mainly in the liquid phase and thus proceeds fairly quickly.

Its scabbard is made of brown leather and reinforced with metal.

Its legs are among the strongest of any animals, powerful enough to tear down metal wire fences.

Its appearance differs from the oboe in that the reed is attached to a slightly bent metal tube called the bocal, or crook, and the bell has a bulbous shape.

Its small frame building, covered in pressed metal, is now on the National Register of Historic Places.

Its metal is 70 % copper and 25 % tin, with the remainder consisting of lead, zinc, arsenic, gold and silver.

Its economy is primarily based on trade, transport and food and metal processing.

Its mission is to educate consumers and contractors about the outstanding value and superior longevity of metal roofing for housing applications.

Its small old core contains an impressive wooden mosque, built without metal nails by the Dungan people, and a wooden Orthodox church that was used as a stable during Soviet times ( see state atheism ).

Its first CD " A Dream Return to Tang Dynasty " combines elements of traditional Chinese opera and old school heavy metal.

Its relatively unexplored caves are said to have high deposits of mineral resources such as limestone, gold and metal.

* Its working parts are in a hard smooth rounded metal backpack casing which has little that can snag on things or be easily grasped and pulled at.

Its major branches are fuel mining and production ( 53 %), metallurgy ( 24 %) and metal processing and engineering ( 8. 8 %).

Its disadvantages are its tendency to crack or shatter when the substrate is stressed or bent, but modern enamels are chip and impact resistant because of good thickness control and thermal expansions well-matched to the metal.

Its disadvantages are that it is more vulnerable to interference, and must be kept away from metal objects which can cause power losses.

Its major industry is ship construction and metal fining.

Its gun barrel has been lengthened with a metal extension.

Its zero oxidation state Hg < sup > 0 </ sup > exists as vapor or as liquid metal, its mercurous state Hg < sub > 2 </ sub >< sup > 2 +</ sup > exists as inorganic salts, and its mercuric state Hg < sup > 2 +</ sup > may form either inorganic salts or organomercury compounds ; the three groups vary in effects.

Deena Weinstein ’ s book Heavy Metal: The Music And Its Culture argues that heavy metal “… has persisted far longer than most genres of rock music ” due to the growth of an intense “ subculture which identified with the music ”.

Its tool-head is a loop of flat, sharpened strap metal.

Its 2007 production of 1. 483 million tons of the metal was worth US $ 10. 12 billion, mainly as metal in concentrate, but some as cathode, and was 9. 5 % of world output and 26 % of Chilean production, according to the US Geological Survey's preliminary estimates of 2007 world mine output.

Its venom supposedly corrodes metal and local folklore tells of a predilection for the color yellow.

Its remnants were nationalised and Dead Sea Works Ltd. was established in 1952 in its stead as a state-owned company to extract potash and other minerals from the Dead Sea.

Its remnants form the Crab Nebula.

Its remnants form the Crab Nebula ( NGC 1952 ).

Its ruins, along with the remnants of the Berghof, were removed in 1996 to make room for a new bus station serving the bus line to the Kehlsteinhaus and a for the new InterContinental Hotel Resort.

Its remnants were absorbed by Goguryeo in 494, and both Goguryeo and Baekje, two of the Three Kingdoms of Korea, considered themselves its successor.

Its units were scattered throughout Germany and the Netherlands and consisted either of units in the process of being formed or remnants cadred by survivors of previous units.

Its crater rim is barely recognizable as remnants mark portions of Powell Buttes, Gray Butte, and the western front of the Ochoco Mountains at Barnes Butte.

Its only remnants are a 17th century brick gate and water-pump.

In 1978, Schaeffer asked a group of Reformed Episcopal Clergy to research his thoughts and current trends, forming a church guild called “ The Society of Reformed Philosophical Thinkers ” that later in 1988 merged with “ Into Thy Word Ministries ,” also envisioned by Schaeffer, and then the remnants of the “ Charles E. Fuller Institute ” in 1998 were merged forming, “ The Francis A. Schaeffer Institute of Church Leadership Development .” Its purpose is continuing the work which started in Carmel California as a think-tank and Bible literacy project, currently in Pasadena, Ca.

Its apse is the only one conserved in Chiapas from the colonial era, on which remnants of frescos can be seen.

Its remnants continued guerrilla warfare until 1653, when they surrendered at Cloughoughter in county Cavan.

Its remnants were reconstituted, fought for Mark Antony and Octavian, disbanded, and later merged into X Gemina.

Its remnants were absorbed by the neighboring and brotherhood kingdom of Goguryeo in 494.

Its acquisition in 1967 of rights at the Montreal Expo eventually grew into a 125-store chain, Astral Photo, the remnants of which are now owned by the Black's Photography chain.

Its remnants were also responsible for flooding in Ireland, Scotland and Wales.

Its remnants became Hurricane Frank in the eastern Pacific Ocean

* Its medieval section includes ruins of a cathedral that was originally built in Romanesque architecture and then converted to Gothic architecture, as well as remnants of a bishop's priory.

Its remnants later affected Alaska.

Its last political contest was the 1985 local government election, after which its last remnants joined the Labour ' 87 group.

Its Romanesque wheel window and cemetery cross are remnants of the Norman church.

Its successor, the Windsor and Hantsport Railway, began operations on August 27, 1994, maintaining service on the remnants of the DAR between Windsor and New Minas, including the remnant of the Truro Subdivision that served the large open pit gypsum mines several miles east of Windsor, as well as operating the " Windsor Branch " to Windsor Junction where the system had a connection with CN's mainline between Halifax and Montreal.

Its civilization, which flourished 50, 000 years before Churchward's day, was technologically more advanced than his own, and the ancient civilizations of India, Babylon, Persia, Egypt and the Mayas were merely the decayed remnants of its colonies.

Its bark is colored pale grey or grey-green and is smooth, but sometimes retains remnants of leaf scars.

Its remnants were tracked for the next few days, and although some deep convection returned momentarily, the system's convection soon disappeared.