aluminum
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An aluminum truss provided infrastructure, and custom joints, gimbals and animatronics gave the astronaut life.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 10, 2026
Last fall, two fires at the Novelis aluminum rolling plant in Oswego, N.Y., took the facility offline at least until this June.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 2026
The rising market price for aluminum has driven up buyers’ costs for the metal and in turn the delivery charge with the tariff.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 2026
“Even if this fire had never happened, they’d still be paying the delivery premium, which includes the tariff,” said Kaustubh Chandorkar, an aluminum market analyst.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 2026
Americans dutifully adopted the new term, but many British users disliked aluminum, pointing out that it disrupted the –ium pattern established by sodium, calcium, and strontium, so they added a vowel and syllable.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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