chrome
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More than 600 people work at the site, which manufactures about 400,000 tonnes of tin, chrome and coated steels for the packaging industry every year.
From BBC ● Jun. 2, 2026
Silver and chrome ore output rose, it added.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 30, 2026
In 1958, as automakers were giving us gas-swigging engines, chrome, and big fins, L.A’.s mayor, Norris Poulson, canceled the order for a Cadillac as his official car, and bought a Rambler instead.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 26, 2026
A few additions are purely Adams including some of the photos she took and had framed and a set of modern chrome cat bowls.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 4, 2026
Priye had not changed so much as hardened, her personality coated in chrome.
From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
As it ought to be, the interior is spectacular, with traditional eyeball vents and chromed organ-pull dampers sharing space with discretely deployed digital displays and other modern conveniences.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 4, 2026
Then, three weeks after that, came Diesel, with its 1,000 forms of denim: tufted, frayed, collaged, chromed, recycled, reinvented.
From New York Times ● Mar. 1, 2022
Fernández’s show features four 2019 works from her “Dark Earth” series, chromed metal panels inscribed with horizontal lines and sketched with mountain scenes rendered in multiple media, notably chunky charcoal.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 23, 2021
She said she loves Phasma’s chromed appearance and genderless power.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 13, 2017
Non-Tannins.—The solution must be detannised by shaking with chromed hide powder till no turbidity or opalescence can be produced in the clear solution by salt-gelatine solution.
From Synthetic Tannins by Grasser, Georg
Gonzalez explained that the steel is far cheaper than chroming, but few customers ask for it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 10, 2023
Platers will have to switch to less toxic — and less shiny, and more expensive — chroming material, something Rodriguez doesn’t think his peers and customers will embrace.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 10, 2023
After migrating to the United States as a teenager, Rodriguez so wanted to work at a chroming facility that he started by cleaning bathrooms and delivering parts.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 10, 2023
When all the stripping, chroming, raking, molding, metal flaking and polishing are done, a chopper, righteously gleaming from fishtail exhaust to brakeless front wheel, may have cost its owner $5,000 in materials and labor.
From Time Magazine Archive
By coupling, chroming or developing, the direct blacks can be made to give full, deep and fast blacks, and examples of their use in this manner will be found in following sections.
From The Dyeing of Cotton Fabrics A Practical Handbook for the Dyer and Student by Beech, Franklin
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