Definitions
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- adj. Describing any atom that has a very large atomic weight; especially those that lie beyond fermium in the periodic table
- adj. Extremely or exceedingly heavy.
Etymologies
Examples
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Coal, for example or oil sands, or shales, or the ultraheavy oils like the Orinoco fields can be made into liquid fuel.
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In particular, refiners are working to expand production from the Canadian tar sands, which hold large reserves of ultraheavy oil.
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One critical bottleneck involves ultraheavy steel forgings that go into the most critical parts of a nuclear power plant.
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The figures above do not take into account the additional estimated 1 trillion barrels of technically recoverable, so-called unconventional oil like ultraheavy oil, bituminous schist and tar sands.
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Would this approach result in fewer ultraheavy SUVs on the road?
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For example, the Black Crowes video for “Remedy” was on ultraheavy MTV rotation in the summer of 1992, and I saw it every single day often twice or thrice for three straight months.
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Avernus, Niflheim, and the like — that served vessels bound to or from the terrible R-class worlds where ultraheavy elements are mined.
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The Haluk don't need to steal ultraheavy elements.
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"So long as the xenos pay a good price in ultraheavy elements, they'll likely get what they want."
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"Do the Haluk have a large supply of ultraheavy elements?"
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