Trade has kept pretty steady over the past week, with lamb prices hardening in response to smaller numbers on the market. |
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The commercial insurance market is hardening, as they say in the insurance business. |
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In comparison with a structural steel hardened in a furnace cheaper carbon steel can be used with higher strength after induction hardening. |
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Increasing cold work, within limits, increases the strength obtained during age hardening. |
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The con rods are high-strength forged steel that's treated with a carbon hardening process. |
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This property is being used in hardening thin sections, such as safety razor blades and needles, in order to reduce decarburisation. |
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The principles of this were defensible space, community interaction, natural surveillance, estate design and target hardening. |
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That was before the rise of shout TV and the hardening of partisanship and the growing attempts by each side to demonize the other. |
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But all actions have their consequences, and to pursue such a path requires a certain hardening of the heart. |
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Yet other experiments suggest that the change in strength at the CMF is due to dilatancy hardening at low melt fractions. |
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Shell is predominantly involved in downstream oil production and any hardening of refining margins could lift bottom line profits. |
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One prominent adaptive mechanism to this temperature stress is known as cold hardening or acclimation. |
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Like wet plaster of Paris hardening in a glass jar, salt crystals that have incorporated water can also expand to crack their container. |
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Plants kept on the windowsill will benefit from hardening off before they are planted out. |
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Stories go in and out of focus in the news, eventually hardening into history, and yet history can be misleading. |
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After extrusion, the tubes are annealed to remove the work hardening and provide the softness or limpness needed for good collapsibility. |
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When using a hardening fixer the emulsion is made more resistant to scratching which again will prevent reticulation on the final wash. |
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The months roll by, hardening Lian's rugged, and already fiercely independent spirit. |
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This implies that after hardening these steels practically always contain some residual austenite. |
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What's more, there are issues related to equipment maintainability, reliability, hardening pattern repeatability, and downtime. |
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The unexpected point to emerge from the results is that aerated shaking of threads in seawater leads to a permanent hardening or sclerotization. |
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While using, scrape the inside wall of the container often to keep residue from hardening and dropping pieces into the compound. |
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With hardening of steels, by chilling after previous heating, the structure is converted from austenite to martensite. |
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By now, the sun is up and angrily drying up your sweat, matting your hair and hardening your uniform. |
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Secondary bacterial infection can cause hardening and thickening of the skin, known as elephantiasis. |
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The grinding machine has no heat-affected zone, and operates without creating work hardening, a recast layer, or metallurgical damage. |
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These toolholders are made from a special heat-resistant tool steel that undergoes a proprietary hardening process. |
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It is therefore probable that much of the increase in sugars during sub-zero hardening was symplastic. |
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He may be hardening to win over militants who have balked at formalising a de facto truce. |
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The silveriness is most stunning with new spring growth, hardening to blue-green in summer. |
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Diffusion methods modify the chemical composition of the surface with hardening species such as carbon, nitrogen, or boron. |
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Under hot, dry conditions the spatterdash should be wetted to ensure satisfactory hardening. |
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The resulting structure is more stable than those developed by other hardening processes. |
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The Brazilian Rosewood oil penetrates wood, hardening and protecting individual fibers. |
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My heart should not be hardening against him but it has and yet it feels like porcelain and as if it is starting to crack. |
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Once again, the Labour Court has intervened in a bid to resolve the issues, but the trades unions' attitude to flotation is hardening. |
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As the scale of the deal struck with the PDs emerges, that resentment is hardening. |
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Pro-Agreement loyalists in north Belfast report that attitudes are hardening. |
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Michael Howard has finally stopped wittering on about immigration after discovering that this is hardening up the Labour support. |
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With the Lebanese government balking at an international investigation into the murder, tensions are rising and positions hardening. |
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They see that his supporters are hardening in their views but not increasing their numbers. |
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This boom has been fuelled by the Indian shipping rates which are an all time high due to tonnage charges hardening in the international market. |
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Tighter supplies of beef cattle in the midlands and northern regions of the country has led to a further hardening on prices for this weeks kill. |
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Lamb prices are still holding pretty steady, with the odd sign they might be hardening. |
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The case hardening medium is a molten, nitrogen-bearing, fused-salt bath containing either cyanides or cyanates. |
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A number of changes occur in the eye as you grow older, but most experts agree that a hardening of your lens causes presbyopia. |
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From freezers and hardening tunnels to compressors, evaporators and air handling units, a sea of chilling and freezing equipment is available to the dairy industry. |
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By adding copper to the silver, the mediaeval craftsmen were hardening and lowering the melting point of silver, although it still remained silvery in colour. |
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Consequently less speculative accommodation is now being provided, which we believe will lead to rents hardening and a build-to-suit market becoming more preeminent. |
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Harper puts great stock in the role of insurance as a way of both incentivizing efficient levels of target hardening and of coping with the risks of loss from such events. |
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Racial attitudes existed parallel to hardening attitudes towards immorality and vice, which required the same segregation that racial separation would soon require as well. |
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Within the airline, attitudes appear to be hardening considerably. |
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The quicker the finished product gets into the hardening cabinet, the smaller the ice crystals. |
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The hardening of an idea into a plan for a novel is a vague process and hard to describe. |
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The drug halts the development of atherosclerosis, a word referring to the hardening of the arteries. |
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It also distinguishes between two types of hardening, namely shear hardening and compression hardening and incorporates soil dilatancy and a yield cap. |
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Nevertheless, the sensitivity can be modulated and there is good evidence that Phaseolus can undergo substantial hardening or acclimatization to low temperatures. |
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Not emphasized, however, was the mottled, hardening effect of any fluorides on teeth or the possible accumulative long-term effect of such additions. |
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Similarly, the authors of a number of country case studies report evidence of greater wage and price flexibility with the hardening of the exchange rate commitment. |
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The force of the two reacting spreads the foam through the chest cavity, hardening to apply pressure to any bleed sites. |
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Nitrogen additions to high-strength steels containing vanadium have become commercially important because the additions enhance precipitation hardening. |
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The MIT team made the tags by randomly mixing microscopic glass spheres into transparent epoxy and then hardening the glue into wafers about the size of Chiclets. |
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The other hardening parameter c is treated as a fudge factor here. |
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Hydration and hardening of concrete during the first three days is critical. |
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For the past two decades case hardening and Doug Turnbull have been synonymous, too. |
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A Color case hardening can produce a very striking and attractive finish with mottled colors of red, blue, green, etc. |
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Heat resistant steel, case hardening steel, micro alloys, and springs are among major products of the company, he added. |
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One application is in the measurement of low concentration carbon in steels to determine case hardening depths. |
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The process by which plants become acclimated to cold temperatures is called hardening. |
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Active screen plasma nitriding is one of the novel surface hardening methods which is usually used for formation of iron nitride coating. |
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The company's products include heat resistant steels, case hardening steels, micro alloys, spring and cold work tool steels. |
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The voiced aspirated stops may have first become voiced fricatives, before hardening to stops under certain conditions. |
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In addition, it will identify hard spots due to chemical changes, hydrogen enbrittlement and work hardening. |
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The latter two assumptions imply that work hardening in the material should not be significant enough to generate stable necking. |
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Most commonly seen when rough machining work hardening materials such as stainless steels and high-temp alloys. |
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In this pit, a viscous secretion is exuded, entering the groove and hardening gradually upon contact with sea water. |
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Indeed, every engine block or soda can hardening from molten alloy forms such dendritic sheets along the edge where the liquid turns solid. |
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He was found at autopsy to have severe hardening of his coronary arteries. |
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Due to the work hardening effect caused by the cutting forces it became evident that a diametrical behaviour is present. |
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At the very least, they cause internal work hardening and other microscopic imperfections. |
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The pale half-moon shape at the base of each nail is called the lunule, which shows where the hardening process is not yet complete. |
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In addition, cartilaginous hardening is observed in conjunction with papillomatous outgrowths and hyperkeratosis of the skin in this stage. |
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Distortional and orientational hardening at large viscoplastic deformations, Int. |
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Work hardening creates microscopic defects in the metal, which resist further changes of shape. |
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This also allows the use of precipitation hardening and improves the alloy's temperature resistance. |
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For others it's pinfeathers pressing through the skin, fingers hardening to hooves, a hat rising from your suddenly cooling scalp, speared on an antler. |
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Bone is formed by the hardening of this matrix around entrapped cells. |
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After the grains deform during processing, they recrystallize, which maintains an equiaxed microstructure and prevents the metal from work hardening. |
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Some more modern steels include tool steels, which are alloyed with large amounts of tungsten and cobalt or other elements to maximize solution hardening. |
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These study subjects were already participating in two clinical trials investigating other aspects of atherosclerosis, or thickening and hardening of the arteries. |
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The microhardness of the as-sprayed Ti coating was slightly higher compared to pure Ti bulk, owing to the work hardening effect during deposition. |
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Work hardening is another and, related, the impulses traveling through a spring exist well beyond the expected back-and-forth compression and rebound stresses. |
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They also contain calcium, potassium, zinc, selenium, folate and niacin, together with linolenic acid, which helps prevent hardening of the arteries. |
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The new plant will ensure continued short delivery times by increasing workflow and enabling processes such as induction hardening, nitriding, and carburizing. |
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Typical applications include processes involving annealing, brazing, carburizing, hardening, nitriding, normalizing, sintering, stress relieving and tempering. |
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This style of element is used in atmosphere, draw, hardening, vacuum and carburizing furnaces as well as molten salt baths and aluminum melting and holding furnaces. |
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The area of the inner cavity is often tapered from the center of the die across the coating width to manage thixotropy, sedimentation, and hardening reactions. |
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The hardening liquid component makes up a photosetting acrylic resin. |
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The process was required to alkalify the basic mixture before hardening. |
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Different hardening agents were used, formaldehyde being the most effective in terms of low-water absorption, followed by furfural and propionaldehyde. |
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