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metal

noun as in lustrous chemical element

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The taste of metal cutlery after years of plastic can also taste funny.

In previous decades, hip-hop was something typically preached against, much like rock & roll and heavy metal before it.

Woods were shredded, the earth trembled and the ground exploded in showers of stone and red-hot metal splinters.

Barron Industries  Michigan-based company that produces metal castings for various industries.

Once a month he attaches a device to his chest, clamps metal bracelets on his wrists, and hooks the whole thing up to a telephone.

In the metal of the tenor several coins are visible, one being a Spanish dollar of 1742.

The metal is then removed, and washed successively with very dilute sodium hydroxid solution, alcohol, and ether.

All the parts are made of metal, so that no change in the weather can affect their relative positions.

Indirect lighting gave a pretty gleam to the metal gadgets on the tables.

A Cremona Violin is, to a rich amateur, a loadstone that is sure to attract the shining metal from the depths of his purse.

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