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The soft-metal can be used to fix pots & pans, patch auto fenders, metalize baby shoes, fill holes in wood and plaster, etc., and dries hard enough in four hours to be drilled or sanded.
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Money, it is often said, does wonders, but "the most wonderful thing that it does is to metalize the human soul."
From Life and Conduct by Lees, J. Cameron
A July Research and Markets industry report notes that the largest end-uses for metalized films include food packaging, decoration, and cosmetics.
From Slate ● Dec. 28, 2018
Unfortunately for us, Armtec says its chaff is made of metalized glass fibers.
From Slate ● Dec. 28, 2018
Each bottle is hand-polished, features a metalized design with four French pewter labels and comes in a wooden lacquered box.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 27, 2015
His original design was fairly elaborate: two layers of metalized polyester and “all kinds of other stuff you don’t really need,” he said.
From New York Times ● Nov. 1, 2015
The metal is duranium; it is metalized quartz.
From Astounding Stories of Super-Science April 1930 by Bates, Harry
And while the metalizing encases and, in one sense, preserves the organic matter by giving it durable form, it also transforms it.
From New York Times ● Oct. 12, 2021
At the time, Deigan was a sales manager for a metalizing company that manufactured products used for aerospace insulation.
From New York Times ● Nov. 1, 2015
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