According to P. Sunderarajan writing in The Hindu, work on the world’s largest solar telescope is likely to commence in the Ladakh region of Jammu and Kashmir in India by the end of 2013. The telescope, with an aperture of 2 metres ...
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Recently,Baosteel Special Material tool and die steel Cr12MoV achieves two furnace continuous casting and hot rolling plate forming.This marks that Baosteel Special Material had become the pioneer enterprise in the industry which master ...
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The European physical naphtha market and forward spreads have come under heavy pressure in recent days as weak LPG values have led some petrochemical end-users to turn their attentions to cracking propane, traders said Friday. Platts ...
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The Platts February LNG Japan Korea Marker ended the Asian trading week at $17.40/MMBtu, up from Monday's $17.15/MMBtu, on the back of sustained demand stemming from cold weather in the Far East. Low temperatures across North Asia boosted ...
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At least a few Japanese refiners have started to consider importing more kerosene for February deliveries amid a particularly bullish winter demand period in the country, industry sources said Friday. Japan has been experiencing a colder ...
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In 1941, a Crown corporation created by federal legislation called Wartime Housing Ltd., which later became the Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation, constructed over 32,000 houses to provide what was originally planned as emergency ...
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The Georgian authorities have agreed to supply 200 MW per month in the first quarter of the forthcoming year 2013. Energy Minister Kakha Kaladze said that "We have agreed with Azerenergy that in January, February and March the company will ...
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The attackers who recently infected the website of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) with an exploit for an unpatched vulnerability in Internet Explorer, also targeted the website of Capstone Turbine Corporation, a U.S.-based ...
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L.E.D.: LED means light emitting diode. LEDs are a solid state device and do not require heating of a filament to create light. Rather, electricity is passed through a chemical compound that is excited and that generates light. LEDs are ...
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Steel Authority of India Limited’s Bokaro Steel Plant has registered a steady growth path both in production and projects in the year 2012. Commissioning of the rebuilt zero emission Coke Oven Battery 2 in March 2012 was one of ...
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Business Recorder reported that Pakistan Steel Mills Board of Directors has directed the management to obtain the opinion of Ukrainian contractors regarding the possibility of damage to the Coke Oven Battery-1 if it is preserved ...
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Microsoft has acquired a small home entertainment technology start-up called id8 Group R2 Studios, which recently launched a Google Android application enabling users to control home heating and lighting systems from their mobile devices. ...
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There is no single rare earth element market. Instead, the rare earth universe is made up of four or five distinct "critical rare earth" markets that should be the focus for investors today. Even with new mine supply and refining capacity ...
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US crude stocks fell 12.032 million barrels last week, while US distillate stocks jumped 6.71 million barrels, according to American Petroleum Institute data Thursday. The data painted a bullish picture for NYMEX crude futures, and a ...
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Weekly oil data from the US Energy Information Administration and the American Petroleum Institute should show a 1 million-barrel draw in US commercial crude inventories for the week ending December 28, analysts polled by Platts said ...
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