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speakers by the time the countries we crawled the us to become the world's top steel producer of the year of judas priest first album in one nine hundred seventy four russian metal makers have long been world class dimitri to know who's known as the father of russian metallurgy he's nineteenth century discovery of crucial temperature points and still casting change the industry forever even earlier puzzles and no self and noble hope i'll play a scientific base in metal alloy research in steel artillery the russian empire may have been a metallurgical foundation but soviet modernization drives in the twenty's and thirty's build new hubs like they need a ghost and help to ready the country for in case industrial demands in world war two more time production greatly expanded the geography of soviet metalworking setting the groundwork for a real explosion of output in the post-war years that still underpins the industry in the post soviet space today. bush is among the world's leaders and digging up and pumping out perhaps the most historically coveted of all elements shiny number
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seventy nine gold while the first aloof gold deposits in russia were found in the urals in the early nineteenth century the country's eastern regions have been the site of many gold rushes and now a longstanding extraction industry since much of the territory was underdeveloped in rugged and twentieth century gold miners conquered literally uncharted territory on route to making the soviet union the number two gold producer on the planet and gold digging in russia is no mere blast from the past just tesco you sold it to russia's largest and one of the world's prominent purveyors of our beloved the outward appearance of the operation is changed significantly as we're barely finding rivers still running with nuggets but with the help of new and improved technology to use is now clearly pounds of gold out of oceans of essentially typical topsoil for the gold or from the n.p.r. ins could suppose it could also contain such elements as car bombs with some money in them these elements trump the gold particles and resists the soil and i. through
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a normal. developed. helps us to. increase cold extraction levels as compared to traditional techniques. approaches have just come into fashion in the gold industry over the last two decades it's developed in major mining in research countries several of the key bacteria and. system used by. our russian. exactly it may not look like gold just yet but it comes out cheaper more energy efficient and with fewer environmentally harmful byproducts than traditional methods relying on heat and pressure. serious scientific and engineering challenge the solution developed. and implemented on the cross. is unique not only for russia but for the international market as well as unique. experience shows it was
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a successful solution. to the basic science behind bio oxidation is the introduction of bacterial cultures which oxidized the predominant latched on to the precious gold we're trying to get. content. in their competitors in search of new and improved culture. in place have doubled savings and increased extraction rates by fifteen to twenty percent. number one and in terms of production volume. and it has the most advanced in terms of high tech methods. so what's the payoff for positioning for the first half of two thousand and ten. some fifteen point six tons of pure gold. six hundred million u.s. dollars with demand in prices for the rich man. they can take any technological advantage straight to the bank.
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also rich and precious metals are more than worth their weight. eight of these metals passed through the refining research laboratories of crusty admit in the siberian city of. their discount branded a mere seven hundred fifty bucks a kilo they also process well over ninety percent of russia's significant platinum and palladium commodity prices measured in the tens of thousands of dollars per kilo inside the lab itself they're more interested in measurements than the flow of banknotes crunching the numbers to tell russian in foreign clients what's worth extracting. from various companies that explore and defend it pretty much they. test it to. be considered.
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contained particles equivalent to at least one gram potential that grim is separated from the surrounding sludge through a process known as. oxidizers base metals. the precious metal in question here a small piece of crap gold is a process that's been around in primitive forms for millennia conducted with unprecedented person in the twenty first century. laboratory both. for its contents and refines with they're given to obtain a pure product ready for use in a range of applications. searching for turning out they're also equipped to analyze alloys of precious metals in total the factories laboratory has the modern equipment and technical savvy to sort through some one hundred thousand geological probes in a year to satisfy outside clients as well as the company's internal production needs. in this reanalyzed. techniques like inductively come. plans murtala commission spectroscopic the oem to say to quit makes this lab
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unique because there's no other laboratory in russia that house the capacity to analyze samples of all the platinum group metals that's gold silver platinum palladium iridium ruth any. tree contest sample concentrates from one palm million which is one ten thousandth of a percent all the way up to one hundred percent. one attend by the london bali and market association to design them produce the international silver stunted which is basically a benchmark silverball it's a fairly complicated the material must have a certain composition also we have to ensure homage an a.s.e. and proper distribution of additives but thanks to our expertise in the use of various methods and hindsight facilities we managed to rise to the occasion and
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come up with a quality sounded that is now used across the world. while the super standard is certainly handy for other analysts the jury prestatyn it turns out has an even wider appeal they're among the top producers of gold jewelry in the russian federation with tons upon tons of fourteen karat chains and necklaces leaving the assembly lines each year for the more discerning buyers there are also the makers of more creative accessories combining a whole range of precious metals and still. all the glitters is gold and not all that precious a custom it is for gifting and glamour the plenum group metals they process are prize not just for their shine on your neck or finger but for unique properties ideal in agriculture in industry because you see here are made from an alloy supplied them with other precious metals like rhodium palladium and retaining all refined ninety nine point nine five percent purity at their facility. these
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alloy coil sort he treated shaped and separated into fine threads the platinum makes threads are split down to the size required for the ultimate application. in this case the work is for crafts fifteen minutes catalyst minutes. in a chemical reaction a catalyst just like the guy did starts the fight but comes out at the end untouched. platinum group metals are particularly useful catalysts because they're largely resistant to chemical reactions they're also stable electrically and can effectively sustain at high temperatures. once these nets are woven they're treated with a hydrogen torch did leaves them ready for installation. at the end of the production process the catalyst goes looks like this a fine mesh of ninety five percent platinum and five percent rhodium alloy finished products like this disc are ideal for use in the high pressure high temperature process of making nitric acid which is used to make our fertilizers due to his use
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platinum mellowing catalysts like the ones in your car's catalytic converter reducing your gas guzzlers toxic emission arse it's not going to be precious is bought them to play an important role in our lives and that's certainly true of the world's most abundant metal aluminum rush is home to the world's biggest aluminum producing conglomerate whose which now controls over twelve percent of the global market still even before the volatility in aluminum prices that came with the financial crisis in two thousand and eight the top dog has been tectonic looking for innovative ways to make better products more cost effective pure aluminum is worth roughly two thousand dollars a tonne but when you strengthen it in an alloy with silicon or other additives you can roughly triple that value but to get that valuable product you have to make sure you get the mix just right. fortunately the mix is being monitored by the magnetic hydrodynamic center it spawned out of the polytechnic. institute
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a. massive production facility was. the pioneer to installations that helped maximize the quality of the alloys produced in smelting using magnets. with the what's the mood of the year tony twenty one has announced they want a minimum of fifty percent of their production to be aluminum and these are very ambitious plans being implemented for that the company needs to introduce new melting and casting equipment including new funny machines magnetic hydrodynamic mixers and other installations. the designers of the center well aware of devalued their ideas their blueprints and products are in demand not just down the road if he sells facility but on the international market as well they've concluded to deal with the european division of the top aluminum production equipment company altaic to distribute their m.h.d. mixing hardware to clients outside russia meanwhile the main task is to make sure the next great idea in the field is there as.
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there is one of our installations this used to simulate a model physical process is occurring naturally and. this is the magnetic mix one of our key products you can see how it works in this physical model it's mixing of the molten metal is in juice here by the electromagnetic field it's a very convenient way to study the exchange of a piece in weight in the finest chairing the mixing process analyze the operations on the whole and to find the most effective modes of using the magnetic hydrodynamic mix that is the nation has been designed in one tenth the scale of typical industrial furnace is which helps us to check the before and other characteristics before the project is physically implemented the projects could run up to tens of millions of dollars so both weigh in the customer interested in the highest degree of precision when setting up these physical models to study what can actually be happening inside the future industrial installations since the heat.
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significantly impacting the quality. even in the best mixing methods used magnetic. creating. the edges and transfer heat energy. under five minutes making for even quality. work for the federal space agency requests that we provide thin aluminum cable for aircraft that's an industry where it's the weight that counts most of that experience. and the. crystals. shape and. magnetic field it doesn't have any contact with.
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had a very fine structure we did the first time which proves you can make. something no other russian laboratory has been able to do so far from the method of electromagnetic. has been. the make it usable as a. power supply in aviation. the initial supply. the technology of electromagnetic. has been listed as part of the technical requirements for this type of aircraft. we received a large order for the. busy filling it with.
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an official word has it that the next plane outfitted with a lightweight aluminum wiring might be discrete sukhoi t. fifty fighter jet this is still shrouded in much secrecy with just a few test flights under its belt in a few years until full scale production obviously more than one metal goes into making planes and we'd be flying nowhere with rock solid twenty two titanium. that tell me i'm a takeoff aboard american boeing or european air buses but it's tacked on and factories in the form of russian. beast heavy smoke is in fact the world's largest producer of titanium and through contracts and joint ventures like boeing they're proving their metal on the next generation of passenger jet liners the moscow state aviation technological institute might see it also has years of experience testing titanium above the clouds but of course there are experimental work starts in earthly laboratories and before anything gets added to the assembly of any aircraft
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they are testing different types of metal for their suitability despite being part of the flyboy family their research has recently uncovered some of metallic magic it's intended to help the more grounded among us. in the. aviation projects our institute developed some unique will acknowledge is there are currently it was also used for various medical applications. the technologies are based on nickel titanium alloy just known simply as the composite was actually discovered by u.s. naval researchers back in one nine hundred sixty two but due to production complexities it's the only game proper appreciation in the last two decades when its founding increase in use in their arena in planetology is intriguing because it exhibits both cheap memory ensued to allow us to city this means that through manipulation sin temperature and stress the material can be. will reliably return
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back to give you a better idea of how nit no works in action we've constructed a quick experiment using this implant for patients with a sunken chest you can see i can bend it out of shape because we chilled it on ice but when i drop it in warm water i can bring it back in a second's time useful here because of its capacity for reversible solid state phase transformation above a temperature fixed by the producers of each nit no alloy the metal has a simple interpenetrating cubic crystal structure at the lower temperatures it spontaneously transforms to a more complex clinic crystal structure this makes the substance easily deformable but with the reverse temperature shift it reverts. water springsteen played to its original shape with impressive force the human body is sturdier than the beater but it's important to keep the transformation under tight control. which improvement is the main problem is to ensure the proper range of temperature within which the
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material can change its shape it's vital for medicine to have exactly thirty six point six degrees celsius. and the. only way we can provide such a crew is to because we've developed the technology to give the same chunk of metal a transition temperature anywhere from minus thirty three to plus seventy degrees and with that within the book it could be basically any temperature that would best fit a specific product with. the alley pioneered by my t. is already finding its place in practice helping improve human lives one of our most important protective devices as humans is our the enclosure from our spine to our breast bone either holds in or hampers the functioning of our most vital organs . our patient here on technology update who will simply call suffers from a defamation in that crucial area a sunken chest bone. she says has caused her pain and hindered her in her physical
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personal and professional life to free her heart and lungs from the stress of the condition doctors will implant in itno bridge much like the one we used in our studio experiment. material provokes no one wanted reaction from the body of. the employee has been designed to last for the rest of the patient's life. is definitely an invasive procedure requiring narcosis and sizable chest incision. but the advice of cut just doctors in the promise of a permanent solution to a lifelong problem made the choice of surgery a no brainer. fortunately the material is time tested and tailor made for this kind of use and just caretakers are very experienced.
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is the x. ray taken eight days off to the operation you can see the nickel to tanian bridge implanted into the rib cage holding the chest in the proper position the difference is really clear on the lateral x. ray book award. this is the same bridge viewed from a different angle this is the breast bone right now it's in the right position before the operation it went in like this a concave defamation of the chest. lead to more active lifestyle now. without fearing negative effects on my heart or my lungs yes or no compared to all the time i suffered the operation was really quick and painless. no has helped our friend cut in many others like her to breathe easier but it's hardly breached the outer limits of its potential variations have been a lawyer under constant tour ability. toxicology endeavor mission testing to see
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what problems it might help solve next it's already found its way into golf clubs as yours and bending spoons but the mighty team is most convinced of its prospects in medical implant ology be it a joint replacement vital stents orthodontics or prosthetics. has a bright helpful future. titanium maybe the so-called space age medal but we're still making breakthroughs with. number twenty six the periodic table sign me. up and coming company based in the girls reaching city of their specialty is turning affordable iron based alloys into high performing equipment for the oil and gas sector in particular so-called electric submersible pumps piece made to pull petroleum up from deep beneath the earth's surface under often uninviting conditions it's a complete production cycle from raw metal materials to the constituent parts to the packed off and ready pumps the e.s.p.
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is a long enclosed did houses both the motor and the rotating stages that make up the pump in it's cheap and purpose the never made product may not look unique but the stories in the meadow. we had to push were innovations i mean new types of products unique on the market tests showed a significant increase in the fish and sea between two some of the pumps teaches of the same design the first being. but the second two using the method methods increased efficiency by several points up to five points which is a very serious push to shift. the trait to push up the performance instead of being poured liquid hot into a mold and then cast this stitches are stamped out of ironing copper alloy aside from saving energy heating the middle to great temperatures the powder method allows for better flexibility in combining and shaping materials produces parts with better balance and thus less energy loss through vibration in the field and.
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improved precision and surface roughness to optimize the flow of the pumps liquid. now even though these parts are made of compressed metals like iron and i haven't exactly been doing my time in the weight room i can still snap them with my bare hands so to make them stronger we have to stick them in the oven and crank up the. inside of this stages are subjected to high pressure and five hundred plus degree celsius heat which not only for just iron copper alloys together but compress and spend strengthens the whole stage. metallurgy that underpins never met the production is hardly knew it was developed by the russian scientists . in the eighteenth twenties to make. these methods already include most of the basics used in the modern era as machine building exploded in the twentieth century so too did the waste from the forging of even the smallest metal detail particularly in the postwar context condom eyes on this valuable waste brought back
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more precise. matters after the manufacturing of the stages there passed on for chemical treatment that's vital to making them ready for action deep under the earth the conditions for oil and gas drilling and pumping are increasingly inverse and more easily accessible wells. has already pioneered only centrifugal designed to better withstand the long months of sand blasting they're sure to receive underground and well known columns are now proven to work for a competitive warranty period of nearly three years they're doing laboratory tests to see if the nano train can give them another a large part of their operation is committed to simulating downhole dynamics to test new components and then the newbies might be just the ticket. to go on a series of tests on our equipment used to be new and shiny like this. but this one
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has undergone serious degradation from the factors common inside oil wells. to make the stage door effective. in this situation the application of. coding looks like an effective way of protecting the existing stages without further massive investment reforging the parts entirely out of such expensive. initially the investment. going to. come from. the income generated at the first stage will be channeled to develop the projects. we plan to invest some twenty. in the big oil and gas game that plays with massive companies gushing profits it might not seem that pinpoint accuracy is the key focus but when it comes to producing the machinery to pump the black stuff from down below small parts can have
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a big impact on the overall efficiency and it turns out they. just might make a mile of difference. see who said. about metals just check back with us periodically and in enjoyed them. oh. millions died. and millions looked forward to be helped and say. the pain and suffering will never be forgotten. as well as the joy of liberation. here a spring of nine hundred forty five on our t.v.
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russia will build vietnam's first ever nuclear energy plant in a bid to further economic cooperation. the deal was during president. visits were all the details of the trip they were there. also in this week's top stories of fresh rift as georgia allegedly arrests a network of twenty gathering classified information for russia. lipped about the quiet. and russia and the us reach a united success as the first joint operation destroys four drug labs in afghanistan.
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you're watching r t coming to you live from the russian capital welcome to the program now russia will build a vietnam's first ever nuclear power plant dimitri medvedev said the deal will help vietnam develop as a powerful independent and modern state the russian president's visit to hanoi comes as moscow looks for closer cooperation with southeast asian countries you know a lot of our reports from the vietnamese capital. many deals were assigned today during the russian president's official visit to one oil but this deal is perhaps the most important and this deal is said to be worth over five billion u.s. dollars and will certainly help vietnam as stablish stability in its energy sector vietnam of course suffers from a lot of blackouts a lot of electricity shortage help as the russian president himself said help.
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