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...

"Russian metallurgy is different," said the engineer, who works for a U.S. defense contractor. "It is not the same as ours. Russians have developed mild steels that we can bolt directly to aluminum, yet we see very little galvanic corrosion. If our steel...

The powder metallurgy industry will see considerable growth in 1995. Industry analysts predict that new products and processing technologies will enable the industry to continue its phenomenal growth which started in 1993. They are also optimistic that the demand for powder metal products will...

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...