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A bronze matryoshka doll: The metal in the metal in the metal

A doll in a doll, and then one more, enveloping them from the outside – this is how Thomas Faessler explains his molecule. He packs one atom in a cage within an atom framework. With their large surfaces these structures can serve as highly efficient catalysts. Just like in the Russian wooden toy, a hull of twelve copper atoms encases a single tin atom. This hull is, in turn, enveloped by 20 ...

A bronze Russian doll: The metal in the metal in the metal

Just like in the Russian wooden toy, a hull of 12 copper atoms encases a single tin atom. This hull is, in turn, enveloped by 20 further tin atoms. Scientists have now generated these spatial structures built up in three layers as isolated metal clusters in alloys. With their large surfaces these structures can serve as highly efficient catalysts.

Pigeon deterrents: a question of chemistry

If you want your statues clean (and your pigeons healthy), you just need to make them of bronze laced with arsenic As the heavens inevitably cover every mountain peak with snow, so do pigeons unstoppably deposit a protective white layer atop every outdoor statue – or so people believed. Yukio Hirose shocked and delighted the world by disproving one of these two supposedly eternal truths. He used ...

Priest outraged as thieves use chainsaw to steal bronze figure of Christ from grave

The bronze Christ figure was stolen from outside St Joseph’s Catholic Church in Sheringham, Norfolk, pictured with Father Denys Lloyd.

Nambé Mills founder Pauline Cable dies at 93

Private services have been held in Arizona for Pauline Platt Cable, founder of Nambé Mills, who died at her home north of Tucson two days before her 94th birthday.

My Autumn's And Winter's Work [Aardvarchaeology]

Dear Reader Fiona asked me to write more about archaeology, which reminded me that I haven't said much about what I've been doing in my study these past months. I find that the last time was actually in late August when I dug in the cave with Margareta and Magdalena. So, what have I been up to during these months when no Swedish archaeologist wants to do fieldwork? I have: Written the archive ...

The Bay Area's Ranch Town Recycling Announces They Now Offer Copper Recycling Service

Ranch Town Recycling, a recycling facility in the Bay Area, now buy copper materials such as wires, pipes, electrical and plumbing. (PRWeb January 19, 2012) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/copper-recycling/bay-area/prweb9008325.htm