METALS AND METALLURGY. Archaic, nonliterate peoples, as well as prehistoric populations, worked meteoric iron long before they learned to use the ferrous ores occurring on the earth's surface. They treated certain ores like stones, that is, they...

Polling in metallurgy is the process of refining a crude metal which has its own oxide as impurity. The molten metal is stirred with logs of green wood in a tank. The heat from the molten metal decomposes the wood which liberates hydrocarbon gases which...

The AP-Ipsos poll on public attitudes about Cuba, Cuban leader Fidel Castro and U.S. relations with Cuba was conducted Jan. 30-Feb. 1 and is based on telephone interviews with 1,000 adults from all states except Alaska and Hawaii. The poll was conducted by Ipsos, an...

Starting late tonight, The Politicker will be printing the results of a "telephone exit poll," done by Pace University's pollsters in cooperation with WNYC Radio and WCBS 2 News. This is kind of an experiment, but given that there won't be any traditional exit polling...

The mayor's favorite pollsters, Penn, Schoen & Berland Associates, have come up with some good news for him on congestion pricing. New Yorkers support congestion pricing 81 to 12 percent "after learning of the myriad benefits of the mayor’s plan," according to a public statement...

The Associated Press-Ipsos poll on public attitudes about the Iraq war, U.S. policy in Iraq and was conducted Feb. 12-15 and is based on telephone interviews with 1,002 adults from all states except Alaska and Hawaii.Results were weighted to represent the population by demographic factors...