These include Metals and Materials ; the Secrets of Chemistry ; the Origin of Metals ; the Origins of Compounds, and a Concordance which is a collection of Observations on the philosopher's stone ; and other alchemy-chemistry topics, collected under the name of Theatrum Chemicum.

Fantasy author Philip Pullman echoes this idea in the fantasy series His Dark Materials, in which the characters finally come to the conclusion that people should make life better on Earth rather than wait for heaven ( this idea is known as the Republic of Heaven ).

Materials science encompasses various classes of materials, each of which may constitute a separate field.

Materials with the characteristics of a fluid will flow when subjected to a stress which is defined as the force per area.

Materials science is utilized in the production of many industrially important substances, such as concrete, paint, and chocolate, which have complex flow characteristics.

Materials in which the band extrema are aligned in k, for example gallium arsenide, are called direct bandgap semiconductors.

Materials other than sand are also often used, such as oatmeal, which are necessarily non-toxic and light enough to easily vacuum away.

Pullman has published two short stories related to His Dark Materials: " Lyra and the Birds ", which appears with accompanying illustrations in the small hardcover book Lyra's Oxford ( 2003 ), and " Once Upon a Time in the North " ( 2008 ).

Materials for which this can be applied are much more limited since the material needs to both have an unpaired spin and be paramagnetic.

Materials which are shiny will be far less successful than those that are not.

Materials and components that obey Ohm's law are described as " ohmic " which means they produce the same value for resistance ( R = V / I ) regardless of the value of V or I which is applied and whether the applied voltage or current is DC ( direct current ) of either positive or negative polarity or AC ( alternating current ).

Materials that can be magnetized, which are also the ones that are strongly attracted to a magnet, are called ferromagnetic ( or ferrimagnetic ).

Materials which make up the brake shoe include, friction modifiers ( which can include can include graphite and cashew nut shells ), powdered metal such as lead, zinc, brass, aluminium and other metals that resist heat fade, binders, curing agents and fillers such as rubber chips to reduce brake noise.

He is the author of over forty technical papers dealing with the influence of microstructure on the properties of materials, and co-authored a textbook on materials science, The Principles of Engineering Materials, along with UCLA professor Alan S. Tetelman ( founder of Exponent, Inc .) and Stanford professor William D. Nix, published by Prentice-Hall in 1973, which remains in use today.

In the 1970s he became an editor of a children's magazine, and began working on his memoirs, which were serialized in the Party publication, the quarterly Xinwenxue Shiliao ( 新文學史料 ) ( Historical Materials on New Literature ), but he died on March 27, 1981 before he could finish it.

Materials used in construction include teak wood or tun wood ( Cedrela tuna ), which is a variation of mahogany, for the neck and faceplate ( tabli ), and gourds for the kaddu ( the main resonating chamber ).

Materials in automated manufacturing which will touch on conductive areas of ESD sensitive electronic should be made of dissipative material, and the dissipative material must be grounded.

Adam and Fertility help Tender escape from the police as they come to arrest him, and as the brothers travel north in hiding, they return to the Creedish Church Compound, which is now the Sensitive Materials Sanitary Landfill.

Considerable economic development activity transpired in Post Falls in 2009 including the opening of ALK Source Materials / Biopol which is a Danish pharmaceutical company, a second Super Wal-Mart store that will be located near the new Cabelas store began its construction and is slated to open in early summer 2010, and Lowe ’ s Home Improvement finalized the purchase of land adjacent to the new Wal-Mart at the Pointe at Post Falls.

The post office is located just east of the Vineyard Camp Meeting Association lands, as is Oak Bluffs Public Library, which is a member of the Cape Libraries Automated Materials Sharing library network.

The Wrightsville Fire Department is a participating department with the state's professional certification system in which over 95 % of its members are trained to the Proboard Firefighter 1 & 2 and Hazardous Materials Operations levels.

Materials for which liquid phase sintering is common are Si < sub > 3 </ sub > N < sub > 4 </ sub >, WC, SiC, and more.

Before he was exposed, Schön had received the Otto-Klung-Weberbank Prize for Physics and the Braunschweig Prize in 2001 as well as the Outstanding Young Investigator Award of the Materials Research Society in 2002, which was later rescinded.

Speakers at the opening dedication in 1925 included Professor George Lincoln Burr of Cornell University, who worked to complete the manuscript of Lea's Materials for a Study of Witchcraft ; Professor Dana C. Munro of Princeton University, vice president of the American Historical Association, who had used Lea's collections as a young scholar ; and Hampton L. Carson, Philadelphia historian and former attorney general of Pennsylvania.

Corning had five major business sectors: Display Technologies, Environmental Technologies, Life Sciences, Telecommunications and Specialty Materials.

The university had the Research Laboratory of Building Materials in 1934, and its five years later the Research Laboratory of Resources Utilisation and the Research Laboratory of Precision Machinery were constructed.

" Materials of foreign intelligence agencies at important level, also personal characteristics of Stalin like morbid suspiciousness and extreme suspicion had been possibly highest factor in it.

While serving as attorney general, Celebrezze fought a legal battle against the United States Department of Energy over the nuclear and chemical pollution at the Fernald nuclear weapons plant, which for years had been kept secret under the disguise of the Fernald Feed Materials Production Center.

As of early 2007, Jakob Dylan had performed with his father only once, at a corporate gig for semiconductor company Applied Materials on November 14, 1997 ; although they played the same show, they did not play together.

JLF Primary Materials, formerly known as JLF Poisonous Non Consumables, was a popular internet website during the last part of the 20th century which sold " research chemicals " — essentially new hallucinogenic, stimulant, and other drug analogues which had not as yet been made illegal.

CSR had earlier purchased Rinker Materials, which was founded by Marshall " Doc " Rinker and A. V.

He had won the Oliver E. Buckley Prize of the American Physical Society in 1983 and, in 1995, the Balzan Prize for Science of Non-Biological Materials.

Despite its drastic diminution-Serious Materials had called back 75 of the plant's 250 employees, with only 38 employed by the closing's announcement-workers successfully negotiated an agreement with management by that night.

The company also had significant interests in minerals in China through Asia Materials ( 44 % share ) and Highwood Resources ( 39 % share ).

Kennedy continued for a short time after retirement as a salesman with Canadian Building Materials, with whom he had worked for during his hockey career in the off-season, but soon left the company.

The development of rare earth magnets began around 1966, when K. J. Strnat and G. Hoffer of the US Air Force Materials Laboratory discovered that an alloy of yttrium and cobalt, YCo < sub > 5 </ sub >, had by far the largest magnetic anisotropy constant of any material then known.

After graduating from University of Belgrade's Faculty of Technology ( Department of Construction Materials ), he worked for various construction firms, and then became a private entrepreneur in 1986.

In 1999 Dr. Ray Stewart, Ph. D., a principle of Bay Materials, worked to engineer a material that was ideal for clear aligner orthodontic treatments.

He worked as Professor at the Department of Mathematics until 2000 when he was appointed professor of Mechanics of Materials at the Department of Materials Science ( University of Ioannina ).

Materials scientists and metallurgists share much of the same education and skills with chemists.

* Dennis W. Hess, CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION OF DIELECTRIC AND METAL FILMSfree-download from Electronic Materials and Processing: Proceedings of the First Electronic Materials and Processing Congress held in conjunction with the 1988 World Materials Congress Chicago, Illinois, USA, 24-30 September 1988, Edited by Prabjit Singh ( Sponsored by the Electronic Materials and Processing Division of ASM INTERNATIONAL )

* Materials chemistry – preparation, characterization, and understanding of substances with a useful function.

** Perseus Classics Collection: Greek and Roman Materials: Text: Hesiod ( Greek texts and English translations for Works and Days, Theogony, and Shield of Heracles with additional notes and cross links.

Materials with low coercivity have narrow hysteresis loops and so low hysteresis losses.

Materials with a wide band gap have very few conduction electrons, making them insulators.

Materials for the building's exterior were chosen with careful precision.

* BlackFivesBlog: Jackie Robinson, Pro Basketball Star: Materials on Robinson's career with the Los Angeles Red Devils

Materials science also deals with fundamental properties and characteristics of materials.

:* Materials characterization – such as diffraction with x-rays, electrons, or neutrons, and various forms of spectroscopy and chemical analysis such as Raman spectroscopy, energy-dispersive spectroscopy ( EDS ), chromatography, thermal analysis, electron microscope analysis, etc., in order to understand and define the properties of materials.

As part of its mission, NIST supplies industry, academia, government, and other users with over 1, 300 Standard Reference Materials ( SRMs ).

* APS International Prize for New Materials, 1992 ( Joint with R. F. Curl & H. W. Kroto )

The top of the valence band and the bottom of the conduction band might not occur at that same value of k. Materials with this situation, such as silicon and germanium, are known as indirect bandgap materials.

Materials used for creating jewelry were traded with Egypt since 3000 BC.

p-Organogels of Self-Assembled p-Phenylenevinylenes: Soft Materials with Distinct Size, Shape, and Functions.

Other companies have 2011 registrations with the DEA to legally import coca leaf according to 2011 Federal Register Notices for Importers, including Johnson Matthey, Inc, Pharmaceutical Materials ; Mallinckrodt Inc ; Penick Corporation ; and the Research Triangle Institute.

Materials with a large amount of loss inhibit the propagation of electromagnetic waves.