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But the most severe threats to Portugal's Montado grassland forests come from ecologically inferior competition in the form of petroleum- and metal-based bottle stoppers, which have been penetrating the market and are used in as much as 30 percent of the world's wine bottles.

Allen Hershkowitz: Cork: A Model of Sustainable Business Allen Hershkowitz 2011

Before I know it, I have it strewn across a planet in ash for ecological reasons much like Banksias need fire to regenerate and I have this planet with huge trees with trunks of superproteins and metal-based molecules, and I've turned photosynthesis upside down, and I've invented a religious order.

mikandra: about a pair of scissors mikandra 2010

Before I know it, I have it strewn across a planet in ash for ecological reasons much like Banksias need fire to regenerate and I have this planet with huge trees with trunks of superproteins and metal-based molecules, and I've turned photosynthesis upside down, and I've invented a religious order.

today mikandra 2010

You may remember it: 240.1 miles per hour, fastest street car ever, carbon fiber build McLaren hasn't built a metal-based car since 1983 and it had three seats, with the driver sitting slightly below and in-between the two "rear passengers" to give the pilot the feel of driving a single-seat race car.

Steve Parker: McLaren's All-New 2012 MP4-12C Introduced in Beverly Hills Steve Parker 2010

You may remember it: 240.1 miles per hour, fastest street car ever, carbon fiber build (McLaren hasn't built a metal-based car since 1983) and it had three seats, with the driver sitting slightly below and in-between the two "rear passengers" to give the pilot the feel of driving a single-seat race car.

Steve Parker: McLaren's All-New 2012 MP4-12C Introduced in Beverly Hills 2010

There are a lot of reasons for going optical, the most obvious being speed: data can be delivered faster on optical cable than on current metal-based cables.

Shuttling PC Data at the Speed of Light - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com 2009

Sanderson's worldbuilding also comes on a lot in this book, with a logical development of his metal-based magic system.

The Well of Ascension by Brandon Sanderson Adam Whitehead 2009

And can metal-based nanomaterials like zinc oxide poison plants.

Material World: Nanotoxicology Tracy Staedter 2009

There are a lot of reasons for going optical, the most obvious being speed: data can be delivered faster on optical cable than on current metal-based cables.

Shuttling PC Data at the Speed of Light - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com 2009

In 2007, however, after only nine years, the toxins were identified as metal-based, highly reactive oxygen species.

Pfiesteria 2008