The metal strip they had taken off from was coal black against the green jungle around it.

With the metal shutters closed, the dining room was so dark that it seemed still night in there.

Another recent achievement was the successful development of a method for the complete combustion in a bomb calorimeter of a metal in fluorine when the product is relatively non-volatile.

The fence, his only refuge when the metal death came roaring at him, was made of rails, all right, but the rails were protected by a thick screening of barbed wire that would rip his flesh if he pressed against it.

Near it was a metal ladder on casters attached to the top shelf.

You know that I could hold right here in my hand the little chunk of uranium metal that was the heart of the bomb that dropped on Hiroshima.

As it was, while Central wrangled among itself, Robert Tanner sneaked out of the pilots' barracks, out to the field and over to Helva's slim metal hull.

The Greek abacus was a table of wood or marble, pre-set with small counters in wood or metal for mathematical calculations.

The Hittites smelted rather brittle iron from the 15th century BC and the new metal was introduced in Greece.

* The current world record was set in 1999 at 100 picokelvins ( pK ), or 0. 000 000 000 1 of a kelvin, by cooling the nuclear spins in a piece of rhodium metal.

As a result, Sumer and Akkad had a surplus of agricultural products, but was short of almost everything else, particularly metal ores, timber and building stone, all of which had to be imported.

In the late 1880s, Carnegie Steel was the largest manufacturer of pig iron, steel rails, and coke in the world, with a capacity to produce approximately 2, 000 tons of pig metal per day.

This was despite a metal cover, and locking-bar mechanism designed to prevent this from occurring.

Pushing down on the metal cover to reseat the ULA was normally sufficient to rectify these issues.

A rare discovery of metal plates belonging to wooden doors was made at Balawat ( Imgur-Enlil ).

The quality of the metal used in armour deteriorated as armies became bigger and armour was made thicker, necessitating breeding of larger cavalry horses.

When this discovery was followed up in 1870, on the neighbouring Santorin ( Thera ), by representatives of the French School at Athens, much pottery of a class now known immediately to precede the typical late Aegean ware, and many stone and metal objects, were found.

It was fabricated by AMD in a slightly modified version of their CS44E process, a 0. 25 µm complementary metal – oxide – semiconductor ( CMOS ) process with six levels of aluminium interconnect.

Although forms of brass have been in use since prehistory, its true nature as a copper-zinc alloy was not understood until the post medieval period because the zinc vapor which reacted with copper to make brass was not recognised as a metal.

It was eventually replaced by speltering, the direct alloying of copper and zinc metal which was introduced to Europe in the 16th century.

The 13th century Iranian writer al-Kashani describes a more complex process whereby tutiya was mixed with raisins and gently roasted before being added to the surface of the molten metal.

Zinc metal was also becoming more commonplace By 1513 metallic zinc ingots from India and China were arriving in London and pellets of zinc condensed in furnace flues at the Rammelsberg in Germany were exploited for cementation brass making from around 1550.

Eventually it was discovered that metallic zinc could be alloyed with copper to make brass ; a process known as speltering and by 1657 the German chemist Johann Glauber had recognised that calamine was " nothing else but unmeltable zinc " and that zinc was a " half ripe metal.

It is hard and brittle, and it was particularly significant in antiquity, so much so that the Bronze Age was named after the metal.

* Dong Open Air, a heavy metal festival in Germany, named after the Dong hill

* American Atmospheric black metal band Abigail Williams recorded a song named " Akasha " in their most recent 2011 album " Becoming ".

The chemical element tantalum ( symbol Ta, atomic number 73 ) is named after the mythological Tantalus ; its lack of reactivity, and the resulting difficulty in isolating the pure metal from ore, gave the element its name, by analogy ; the pure metal tantalized chemists.

Although the MOSFET is named in part for its " metal " gate, in modern devices polysilicon is typically used instead.

There are two main types of fox whistle: the button type or a simple folded piece of metal known as the Tenterfield whistle, named after the town in Australia where they originated.

It is most commonly known as pitchblende ( from pitch, because of its black color, and blende, a term used by German miners to denote minerals whose density suggested metal content, but whose exploitation was, at the time they were named, either impossible or not economically feasible ).

One of Zapf's products was a publication named " Feder und Stichel " (" Pen and Graver "), printed from metal plates designed by Zapf and cut by punch cutter August Rosenberger during the war.

This prompted Geffen to create a subsidiary label, named DGC Records in 1990, which focused on more progressive sounds ( along with some heavy metal acts ) and would later embrace the emergence of Alternative Rock and Grunge, Nirvana being an example.

On their 2006 album The Morrigan's Call, the Irish Celtic metal band Cruachan featured a song " Ungoliant " as well as one named after Shelob.

The type of lamp is often named by the gas contained in the bulb ; including neon, argon, xenon, krypton, sodium, metal halide, and mercury, or by the type of electrode as in carbon-arc lamps.

Later, bands such as Isis and Neurosis, with similar influences, created a style that relies mostly on ambience and atmosphere that would eventually be named atmospheric sludge metal or post-metal.

The internationally based progressive metal band The HAARP Machine ( originally known as HAARP ) was named after the facility.

In 1989, German director Thomas Schadt made a documentary about Kreator ( focusing on the social aspect of heavy metal in the Ruhr Area ) titled Thrash Altenessen ( named after the band's hometown, a suburb of Essen ).

* The Shining, an album by Finnish metal band IneartheD, later named Children of Bodom

As well as traditional Assyrian music, many heavy metal bands have named themselves after Mesopotamian gods and historical figures, including the partly ethnic Assyrian band Melechesh.

* The American technical death metal band Nile have an 11: 43-minute long song named " Unas, Slayer of the Gods " based on a myth about how Unas killed and ate the gods in order to achieve immortality.

* Charun is referred to in the song " The one who will not be named " by the metal band GWAR

American heavy metal band Vicious Rumors had a track named " Ship of Fools " on their 1990 self-titled album.

In 2006, heavy metal magazine Hit Parader named Plant the " Greatest Metal Vocalist of All Time ".

The theory all starts with a fragment of metal that was brought into the museum at Varberg in May 1932 by a master smith named Carl Andersson.

In May 2012 the power metal band Sabaton released an album named “ Carolus Rex ”.