materials
Example Sentences
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Beijing’s stranglehold on rare-earth minerals sparked new efforts to produce the raw materials integral to cars and gadgets.
To create the transistors, slices of silicon are etched, treated and combined with thin films of other materials.
From Barron's
It sounds like science fiction - a factory, located hundreds of kilometres above the Earth, churning out high-quality materials.
From BBC
The Pentagon has begun to address these vulnerabilities by targeting microelectronics, explosives and rocket motors, shipbuilding and key stockpile materials such as rare earths for reshoring, diversification, and surge capacity.
Now, as investors look toward next year, more are turning away from richly valued tech stocks and toward banks, materials firms and healthcare companies closely tied to the real economy.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
