Three Tachikoma survive the mandatory decommissioning, ( one blue, calling itself " Batou's Personal Tachikoma ", and two others, repainted yellow and silver ) and prove their worth when they abandon their new civilian jobs to save their imperiled comrades, without explicit orders to do so.

The governor and his retinue thoughtfully brought with them a glorious silver punchbowl which is still one of the cherished possessions of the college.

The abundance of antimony in the Earth's crust is estimated at 0. 2 to 0. 5 parts per million, comparable to thallium at 0. 5 parts per million and silver at 0. 07 ppm.

Rosicrucians, in the same way of those who have had near-death experiences, speak of a life review period occurring immediately after death and before entering the afterlife's planes of existence ( before the silver cord is broken ), followed by a judgment, more akin to a Final Review or End Report over one's life.

There is a long history of mining in the Andes, from the Spanish silver mines in Potosí in the 16th century to the vast current porphyry copper deposits of Chuquicamata and Escondida in Chile and Toquepala in Peru.

He is credited with the discovery of the element arsenic and experimented with photosensitive chemicals, including silver nitrate.

The chief coin type, a griffon, is identical with that of Teos ; the rich silver coinage is noted for the beauty and variety of its reverse types.

It is now in its 27th year and is most notable for its marquee on the silver sands playing fields.

The steam cracking of alkanes affords a few percent acetylene, which is selectively hydrogenated in the presence of a palladium / silver catalyst.

Bioleaching is one of several applications within biohydrometallurgy and several methods are used to recover copper, zinc, lead, arsenic, antimony, nickel, molybdenum, gold, silver, and cobalt.

Historical " bronzes " are highly variable in composition, as most metalworkers probably used whatever scrap was on hand ; the metal of the 12th century English Gloucester Candlestick is bronze containing a mixture of copper, zinc, tin, lead, nickel, iron, antimony, arsenic with an unusually large amount of silver – between 22. 5 % in the base and 5. 76 % in the pan below the candle.

Modern cymbals consist of several types of bronze, the most common being B20 bronze, which is roughly 20 % tin, 80 % copper, with traces of silver.

The Torah's Joseph narrative, at a stage when Joseph is unrecognised by his brothers, describes Joseph as testing whether his brothers have reformed, by secretly planting a silver cup in Benjamin's bag, then publicly searching the bags for it, and after finding it in Benjamin's possession, demanding that Benjamin become his slave as a punishment.

* In The Fellowship of the Ring, Boromir is described: " On a baldric he wore a great horn tipped with silver that now was laid upon his knees.

The game is started by the Mayor of Bodmin by throwing a silver ball into a body of water known as the " Salting Pool ".

The male is torpedo-shaped, with gold stripes between the blue stripes ; the female has a larger, whitish belly and silver stripes instead of gold.

This is called bimetallism and the attempt to create a bimetallic standard where both gold and silver backed currency remained in circulation occupied the efforts of inflationists.

For isotopes lighter than 112 u, the primary decay mode is electron capture and the dominant decay product is element 47 ( silver ).

Then, on top of the dye is coated a thin, reflecting layer of silver, a silver alloy, or gold.

If the glass is cooled quickly in the absence of a strong light source by putting ice on the glass or placing it in the freezer with the door almost closed, it turns backwards ( i. e. the silver sides trail ).

The imbalance of this effect between the warmer black side and the cooler silver side means the net pressure on the vane is equivalent to a push on the black side, and as a result the vanes spin round with the black side trailing.

Carson City is about south of Reno and originated as a stopover for California bound emigrants, but developed into a city with the Comstock Lode, a silver strike in the mountains to the northeast.

When gold and silver were discovered in the Sierra Nevada and the Inyo Mountains, the resulting sudden influx of miners, farmers, cattlemen and their hungry herds brought conflict with the Owens Valley Paiute, whose crops were being destroyed.

Further, a large number of DuMont's kinescopes were destroyed c. 1958 for their silver content.

Following several hard years with reduced silver output from the mines, the war of 1807 – 1814, and a severe town fire in 1810 where 56 houses on the west side were destroyed, mining was complemented by the government establishing a defense industry in 1814.

Many of the earlier papal tiaras ( most notably the tiaras of Pope Julius II and that attributed to Pope Saint Silvester ) were destroyed, dismantled or seized by invaders ( most notably by Berthier's army in 1798 ), or by popes themselves ; Pope Clement VII had all the tiaras and papal regalia melted down in 1527 to raise the 400, 000 ducats ransom demanded by the occupying army of Holy Roman Emperor Charles V. Over twenty silver tiaras exist, of which the earliest, the sole survivor of 1798, was made for Pope Gregory XIII in the 16th century.

The family silver, furniture, and other items were stolen or destroyed ( although some items were eventually returned ), and Hutchinson's collection of historically important manuscripts was scattered.

Many of them were recycled for their silver content, or destroyed in studio or vault fires.

According to surviving members of the crew-two from the Whydah and seven from Bellamy's other fleet ship destroyed by the storm, the Marianne-at the time of its sinking, the ship carried nearly four and a half to five tons of silver, gold, gold dust, and jewelry, which had been divided equally into 180 fifty-pound bags and stored in chests below the ship's deck.

About 1867 brothers Peter, John and Donald McKellar discovered silver deposits near the river, and their Thunder Bay Silver Mining Co. operated near its mouth from 1866 to 1870, when fire destroyed the buildings.

Gold and silver were stolen and documents destroyed.

In 1892 he moved to the silver boom town of Creede, Colorado, where he managed the Denver Exchange Club until the town was destroyed by fire.

The great wealth created by the silver mines from the surrounding mining towns of La Aduana, Minas Nuevas and San Bernardo enabled the founders and residents of Alamos to build scores of colonial Spanish mansions throughout the town ; most of which were destroyed in the early 20th Century, and replaced by the images of what Americans who had bought the ruins thought the colonial princes wanted as homes.

At this time most of the art and silver artefacts were also seized and what was not sold or destroyed has survived in the Haarlem municipal collection, which is now in the collection of the Frans Hals Museum.

In 1656 and 1657 Robert Blake destroyed the fleet, but the Spaniards saved most of the silver on board and the English admiral only managed to capture a galleon.

The Havasupai witnessed a silver rush and the Santa Fe Railroad in effect destroyed what was fertile land.

We have appointed you, with all convenient diligence to repair unto the said cathedral church, and to take away the shrine and bones of that bishop called Saint Richard, with all ornaments to the said shrine belonging, and all other the reliques and reliquaries, the silver, the gold, and all the jewels belonging to said shrine, and that not only shall you see them to be safely and surely conveyed unto our Tower of London there to be bestowed and placed at your arrival, but also ye shall see both the place where the shrine was kept, destroyed even to the ground and all such other images of the said church, where about any notable superstition is used, to be carried and conveyed away, so that our subjects shall by them in no ways be deceived hereafter, but that they, pay to Almighty God and to no earthly creature such honour as is due unto him the Creator.

Freedom Tower coins were plated using silver collected from the destroyed World Trade Center after the September 11, 2001 attacks.

In a subsequent paper, the author ( Turner ) points out that: " It is well known that when thin leaves of gold or silver are mounted upon glass and heated to a temperature which is well below a red heat (~ 500 ° C ), a remarkable change of properties takes place, whereby the continuity of the metallic film is destroyed.

The Basilica of Notre-Dame de Boulogne, destroyed or badly damaged by the English, was to be rebuilt, Henri II gave the church a silver statue of Our Lady, and other nobles subscribed money.

This sword was destroyed by Galein after Hamrio Musica created Ravelt using his silver claimer ability nearly killing himself for Haru ; however its form remains in the Rave's memory.

Part of the army then followed him and destroyed the province's capital, Ifat, and Amda Seyon took much of its wealth in the form of gold, silver, bronze, lead, and clothing.

Thus, again, many were deliberately destroyed to save the space and cost of storage ; many were recycled for their silver content.

A black, white and silver version of this robot was remote-controlled by Professor Mooney in " Katastrophe " but was destroyed by the Delta Squad and Omegamax Megazords.

* Model # 12: The twelfth model of giant robot used was a blue and silver cycloptic robot piloted by Gineka and was destroyed by the S. W. A. T.