Metal halide emits more light in the blue spectrum, making it ideal for plant growth but is harmful to unprotected skin and can cause skin cancer.

Metal / alloy: Metal alloys, composites and pure metals can be used as grease additives or the sole constituents of sliding surfaces and bearings.

Metal alloys can be engineered to have high resistance to shear, torque and deformation.

Metal pairs that are mutually soluble can form alloys, whereas metal pairs that are mutually insoluble cannot.

Metal can still be sold in bulk to a bullion dealer or smelter for the value by weight of the component metals.

In contemporary digital video games, the player can be a vicarious spy, as in the Metal Gear, especially in the series ' third installment, Metal Gear Solid, unlike the games of the Third-Person Shooter genre, Syphon Filter, and Splinter Cell.

Metal tools and special brushes can be used to shape the paint before it cools, or heated metal tools can be used to manipulate the wax once it has cooled onto the surface.

The eighties showed the adult comics getting somewhat stale, wallowing in sex and violence ( examples of which can be seen in Heavy Metal magazines from the period ).

In the film Metal: A Headbanger's Journey, George Fisher said death metal is best viewed " as art ," and claimed that far more violent art can be found at the Vatican, saying that such depictions actually happened.

Metal or ceramic plates can be used with a soft vest, providing additional protection from rifle rounds, and metallic components or tightly woven fiber layers can give soft armor resistance to stab and slash attacks from knives and similar close-quarter weapons.

Coors currently operates the largest aluminum can producing plant, known as the Rocky Mountain Metal Container ( RMMC ), in the world in Golden, Colorado.

A joint venture in aluminum can production with Ball Metal and Coors.

Also, if all Emblems are collected, then the player can play as Metal Sonic.

There also exists a mode within Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops for the Sony PSP ( wherein the player is able to find new comrades by searching for wireless access points ) which can be used to wardrive.

" The game also introduced a collective enemy AI, where, unlike previous games in the genre, the enemy guards in Metal Gear Solid 2 work together in squads, can communicate with one another, and react in a more realistic manner towards the player.

In 2008, Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots ( PlayStation 3 ) introduced a battlezone element, where the stealth gameplay is incorporated into a battlefield fought between two armies, both of which can be infiltrated by Solid Snake.

Metal leg bands are placed on them, so that if the Scaup is killed by a hunter or if it is captured by another banding group, the number on the band can be reported to biologists and wildlife organizations.

Metal zippers can be painted to match the surrounding fabric ; plastic zippers can be made in any color of plastic.

Construction is governed by the possession of the game's two unlimited resources, Metal and Energy, and can be undertaken by factories or mobile construction units.

( Metal data will not be included in the second edition, since these have been collected independently by W. B. Pearson, National Research Council, Ottawa, and published as A handbook of lattice spacings and structures of metals and alloys by Pergamon Press.

Metal samples from large grained alloys may be simple to fabricate, particularly from wire samples, with hand-electropolishing techniques giving good results.

Metal complexes and electron deficient compounds ( e. g. diborane ) also appeared to be well described by molecular orbital theory, although valence bond descriptions have been made.

Tungsten is not traded as a futures contract and cannot be tracked on exchanges like the London Metal Exchange.

Metal cans containing food in which bacteria, possibly botulinum, are growing may bulge outwards due to gas production from bacterial growth ; such cans should be discarded.

They are the first band to be labeled as nu metal, starting the New Wave of American Heavy Metal.

The visual imagery of Laibach's art ( or ' Laibach Kunst ', as it calls itself ) has been described as ' radically ambiguous ', An early example of this ambiguity would be the woodcut entitled The Thrower, also known as Metalec ( The Metal Worker ).

Metal aglets may be crimped onto ropes or cables.

* 2004-He is briefly mentioned in Metal Gear Solid 3 when he is said to be piloting a Lockheed M-21 in game.

Ciaran O ' Hagan of Waylander notes that while " Primordial are Ireland ’ s biggest Metal band in terms of sales and international profile " the band would be " lucky to sell much more than 500 copies of their albums in their own country or pull more than 300 punters to a gig.

" The first Discovery and Settlement of this Country was by the Procurement of Sir Walter Raleigh, in Conjunction with some publick-spirited Gentlemen of that Age, under the Protection of Queen Elizabeth ; for which Reason it was then named Virginia, being begun on that Part called Ronoak-Island, where the Ruins of a Fort are to be seen at this day, as well as some old English Coins which have been lately found ; and a Brass-Gun, a Powder-Horn, and one small Quarter deck-Gun, made of Iron Staves, and hoop'd with the same Metal ; which Method of making Guns might very probably be made use of in those Days, for the Convenience of Infant-Colonies.

Furthermore, he has applauded NSBM bands for having " the guts to be different and politically incorrect, unlike the spineless poser-bands in the ' Black Metal ' scene ".

The Wing Cap allows Mario to fly ; the Metal Cap makes him immune to most damage, allows him to withstand wind, walk underwater, and be unaffected by noxious gases ; and the Vanish Cap renders him partially immaterial and allows him to walk through some obstacles such as wire mesh, as well as granting invulnerability to some forms of damage.

The term " black metal " was coined by the English band Venom with their second album Black Metal ( 1982 ).

The Chinese had a somewhat different series of elements, namely Fire, Earth, Metal, Water and Wood, which were understood as different types of energy in a state of constant interaction and flux with one another, rather than the Western notion of different kinds of material.

The five major planets are associated with and even named after the elements: Jupiter 木星 is Wood ( 木 ), Mars 火星 is Fire ( 火 ), Saturn 土星 is Earth ( 土 ), Venus 金星 is Metal ( 金 ), and Mercury 水星 is Water ( 水 ).

This was the case with the overseas versions of Final Fantasy VII, Metal Gear Solid and Rogue Galaxy, which contained additional features ( such as new difficulty settings for Metal Gear Solid ), resulting in re-released versions of those respective games in Japan ( Final Fantasy VII International, Metal Gear Solid: Integral and Rogue Galaxy: Director's Cut ).

In the case of Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty and Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, the American versions were released first, followed by the Japanese versions and then the European versions, with each regional release offering new content not found in the previous one.

Metal consoles were developed to hold Chinese tom-toms, with swing out stands for snare drums and cymbals.

* The MESFET ( Metal – Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor ) substitutes the p-n junction of the JFET with a Schottky barrier ; used in GaAs and other III-V semiconductor materials.

Gothic fashion is often confused with Heavy Metal fashion and Emo fashion: outsiders often mistake fans of heavy metal for goth, particularly those who wear black trench coats or wear " corpse paint " ( a term associated with the black metal music scene ).

The level of detail is often quite exquisite, and while more expensive than the typical plastic soldier, is much easier to work with and modify than White Metal or Pewter figures.

Metal carbonyls are complexes that are formed with the neutral ligand CO.

In 2005, Motörhead won their first Grammy in the Best Metal Performance category with their cover of Metallica's " Whiplash ".

Metal Storm has developed a new type of machine gun, with rates of fire up to 1. 62 million rounds per minute.

Metal finds begin with a few copper items in Period IIB.

Most base metals ( copper, lead, zinc, nickel ) are traded internationally on the London Metal Exchange, with smaller stockpiles and metals exchanges monitored by the COMEX and NYMEX exchanges in the United States and the Shanghai Futures Exchange in China.

; Metal laminates: Although a number of companies had experimented with all-aluminum skis in the 1940s, none of these proved practical.

In 1980, Dolenz produced and directed the sitcom Metal Mickey, featuring a large metallic robot with the catch-phrase " boogie boogie.

Metal utensils are typically made out of bronze or brass, the nobility version of silver and decorated with jewels.

In the early 70s, Queen helped spur the heavy metal genre's evolution by discarding much of its blues influence ; the New Wave of British Heavy Metal in addition, they fused the music genre with a punk rock sensibility and an increasing emphasis on speed.

Numan signed to IRS Records and his final studio album of the 1980s, the edgy, industrial-funk Metal Rhythm ( 1988 ) found favour with fans and scored some positive reviews in the UK music press, but it sold poorly despite two hit singles.