iron-oxide

In a display of pieces similar to those found in Japan we see two 13th- to 14th-century ivory-colored bowls, spare but for fluid calligraphic brushstrokes in brown iron-oxide.

Vietnamese Vessels for the Heart and Soul Lee Adair Lawrence 2012

This finding was one amongst many results that lead the authors to conclude that the red-gray chips probably contained nano-thermite, a kind of "super" thermite with ultra-fine particles of aluminum and iron-oxide.

Pardon Our Dust, or, Why the World Trade Center Dust Matters 2009

A salt-glazed stoneware crock with an iron-oxide wash

The City Hall Park Project - Crolius and Remmey 2007

Appearance: fibrous, impure minerals whose colour varies between pure white and green, brown or grey depending on the iron-oxide content; crocidolite is blue (blue Asbestos); the fibres are between 20 and 25 nm long; Asbestos fibres are smooth and greasy to the touch.

Chapter 10 1996

Further eddy-current losses can be avoided when using ferromagnetic materials having a small electric conductivity, for example, sheet iron alloyed with silicon or certain iron-oxide compounds.

5. Magnetic Field 1991

It must also not be full of argillaceous and iron-oxide infillings.

The American Architect and Building News, Vol. 27, Jan-Mar, 1890 Various

It is paradoxic that before men have walked on Mars 'red iron-oxide plains and breathed its thin cold air, or fought for life in the formaldehyde gales of Venus, that they should look upon a world which welcomes them from illimitable remoteness.

Operation: Outer Space Murray Leinster 1935

He was a round-jawed man with blue eyes, an iron-oxide complexion, stiff, short, rusty hair, red-yellow side-whiskers, an upturned nose, and a shorn chin, habitually thrust forward.

The Faith Doctor A Story of New York Edward Eggleston 1869

The reefs seemed to be almost vertical, with a strike to the north-north-east; and the walls showed slate, iron-oxide, and decomposed quartz.

To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative Richard Francis Burton 1855

Hoeganaes also makes a line of soft magnetic composite materials for electric motors and a low-pollutant iron-oxide powder for toner carriers in copiers.

Purchasing - Top Stories 2010