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russia and. georgia. refused to neither confirm or deny the point. president. she. is holding. the latest edition of technology update. hello and welcome to technology update this month the show goes metal only without the head banging we're talking about the most elementary of materials that have

helped build our civilization and still find innovative new applications today the soviet metallurgical industry was blasting past competitors around the same time heavy metal started blasting out speakers by the time the country 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 cherno who's known as the father of russian metallurgy he's nineteenth century discovery of crucial temperature points and still casting changed the industry forever even earlier puzzles and no self and noble hope i'll play scientific base in metal alloy research and 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 begged me to go and help to ready the country for intense industrial demands in world war two war 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 seventy nine gold. while the first dilulio 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 brocade 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 test. 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 reverse still running with but with the help of new and improved technology to use is now some gold out of oceans of essentially typical topsoil. the gold or

from the poles it also contains such elements as car bombs with. these elements. and resists the soil and i process through which gold is normally. a developed. nation which helps us to screen out the resistance elements and consequently increase cold extraction levels as compared to traditional techniques . to bio oxidizing and bio bleaching approaches have just come into fashion in the gold industry over the last two decades with differing methods developed in major mining in research countries several of the key bacteria and extraction system used by produce still lead to our russian handiwork so what's all the fuss about 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 it was a serious scientific and engineering challenge the solution developed by polish

gold and implemented enterprise in the cross. is unique not only for russia but for the international market as well it's unique for enterprises operating in remote regions of the far north experience shows it was a successful solution. to the basic science behind bio oxidase station is the introduction of bacterial cultures which oxidized the predominant sulfide latched on to the precious gold we're trying to get at since the or coming from each new site can vary in content. and their competitors are always in search of new and improved cultures methods already in place have dealt. savings and increased extraction rates by fifteen to twenty percent. gold is number one and in terms of production volume. and it has the most advanced in terms of. so what's the payoff for that kind of positioning for the first half of two thousand and ten. some fifteen point six tons of pure gold and reported sales over

six hundred million u.s. dollars with demand in prices for the rich man. they can take any technological advantage straight to the bank. the only element that will cost you an arm and a leg is also rich in a so called precious metal more than worth their weight only eight of these metals passed through the refining research laboratories have crespigny it in the siberian city of. their discount branded a mere seven hundred fifty bucks a q they also processed 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 the case you can you hear. from various companies that explore and develop metal suppose it see pretty much what they did. to us.

we starting to test it to. be consistent perspective. contain gold particles equivalent to at least one gram potential that gram is separated from the surrounding sludge through a process known as lation which oxidizes base metals like lead copper zinc and isolate the precious metal in question here a small piece of crushed school is a process that's been around in primitive forms for millennia conducted with a. unprecedented person in the twenty first century because to admit laboratory both. for its contents and refine what they're given to obtain a pure product ready for use in a range of applications metals they're 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 and here to satisfy outside clients as well as the company's internal production needs. in this laboratory reanalyze the samples using techniques like inductively couple. commission spectroscopic the oem to say to quit makes this lab unique because there's no other laboratory in russia that has the capacity to analyze samples of all the platinum group metals thoughts gold silver platinum palladium iridium. tree contests concentrates from one part per 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 silverstone did which is basically a benchmark silverball it's a fairly complicated the material must have a certain composition also we have to ensure. proper distribution of additives but

thanks to our expertise in the use of various methods and facilities we manage to rise to the occasion come up with a quality sounded that is now used across the. world the super standard is certainly handy for other analysts the jury question 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 they're also. the makers of more creative accessories combining a whole range of precious metals and stones. none of the glitters is gold and not all that precious a custom it is for gifting glimmer 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 and industry the coolest you see here are made from an alloy supplied

them with other precious metals like rhodium palladium and retaining all refined and ninety nine point nine five percent purity at their facilities. these alloy coils are 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 cross fit 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 platinum mellowing catalysts like the ones in your car's catalytic converter reducing your gas guzzlers toxic emissions 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 rushes home to the world's biggest aluminum producing conglomerate who sell. 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 techonomy 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 silicone or other additives you can roughly triple that value but you 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 and out of the poly technical institute not far from new cells massive production facilities on. the pioneer to installations that help maximize the quality of the alloys produced in smelting using magnets. with the said what's the move 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 but they are being implemented for that the company needs to introduce new melting and casting equipment including new phony 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 of quipping company i'll stick 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 is. 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 on this physical model it's mixing of the most in metal is in juice here by the electro magnetic field it's a. very convenient way to study the exchange of peace. during the mixing process analyze the operations and to find the most effective methods of using the magnetic hydrodynamic. been designed in one tenth the scale of typical industrial which helps us to check the performance and other characteristics before the project is physically implemented the projects could run up to tens of millions of dollars and

the customer are interested in the highest degree of precision when setting up these physical models to study what can actually be happening inside the future. since the heat source in aluminum smelter sits above the liquefied metal. layers significantly impacting the quality and consistency of the end product. even sting's in the best mixing methods used magnetic impulses creating peak levels of induction at the lower levels of the periphery in addition to the larger current small swirls move the metal at the edges and transfer the heat energy magnet driven mixing helps to level out the temperature in under five minutes making for even quality alloy be less likely to corrode. that work for the federal space agency. provide thin aluminum cable for aircraft industry where the weight that counts most . and the. crystals.

shape. it doesn't have any contact with. a very fine structure. which proves you can make. something no other russian laboratory has been able to do so far from the method of electromagnetic. to produce. it has been i'm taking with the make it usable as a. power supply and aviation. so the initial supply of drugs was successfully used in the assembly of several them to be as planes. as i've heard the technology of electromagnetic crystallise or has been listed as part of the

technical requirements for those type of aircraft but what. we received a large order for these rods are now busy filling it with. the. unofficial word has it that the next plane outfitted with a lightweight aluminum wiring might be just weak sukhoi the fifty fighter jet. 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 titanium a takeoff aboard an american boeing or european air buses but it's tacked on and factories in russia. 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 also has years of experience testing titanium above the clouds but of course their experimental work starts in earthly laboratories and before anything gets added to the assembly of any aircraft they are testing different types of metal for their suitability despite being part of the flyboy family research has recently uncovered some metallic magic it's intended to help out the more grounded among us. aviation projects our institute develop some unique technology. well there are currently it was also used for various medical applications. the technologies are based on nickel titanium alloy it's known simply as the composite was actually discovered by us naval researchers back in one thousand 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 manipulations and temperature and stress the material can be deformed it will end reliably return back to give you a better idea of how did it know 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've 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 net no alloy the metal has a simple interpenetrating cubic crystal structure at lower temperatures it spontaneously transforms to a more complex clinic crystal structure this makes the substance easily deformable but with the reversed temperature shift it reverts. water springs to implant to its original shape with impressive force the human body is sturdier than it beat her

but it's important to keep the transformation under tight control. because the main problem is to ensure the proper range of temperature within which the material can change its shape it's vital for medicine to have exactly thirty six point six degrees celsius. and though the. only we can provide such a cure 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 that within the. it could be basically any temperature that would best fit a specific productivity with significant could have always the alley pioneered by my team 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 petion here on technology update from who will simply call kucha suffers from a defamation in that crucial area a sunken chest bone this she says has caused her pain and hindered her in her physical personal and professional life to free her heart and lungs from the stress of the condition doctors will implant in it no bridge much like the one used in our studio experiment. just material provokes no one wanted reaction from the body is that the employer 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 conscious doctors in the promise of a permanent solution to a lifelong problem i mean the choice of surgery a no brainer. fortunately the materialist time tested and tailor made for this kind

of huge and just caretakers are very experienced. 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. 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. defamation of the chest. more active lifestyle now. fear of the negative effects on my heart or my lungs yes i know compared to all the time i suffered the operation was really quick and painless. to breathe easier

but it's hardly breached the outer limits of its potential variations have been constant toxicology in definition testing to see what problems it might help solve next it's already found its way into golf clubs years. 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 this so-called space age but we're still making breakthroughs with. number twenty six the periodic table sign me. up and coming company based in the girls region city of paris 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 surface under often uninviting conditions it's a complete production cycle from raw metal materials to the constituent parts to packed off in. the e.s.p.'s along enclosed did houses both the motor and the rotating stages that make up the plant in its shape 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 between two some of the pump stages of the same. being close and i'm old but the second to using the methods methods increase the 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 status or stamped out of iron copper alloy aside from

saving energy heating the middle to great temperatures the powder method allows for better flexibility combining and shaping materials produces with better balance and thus less energy loss through vibration in the field and overall improved precision and surface roughness to optimize the flow of the pump 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 heat. inside the coker the stages are subjected to high pressure and five hundred plus degree celsius heat which not only for just iron and copper alloys together but compresses and strengthens the whole stage. underpins no meds production is hardly knew it was developed by the russian scientists. in the eighteenth twenties to make. these methods already includes 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 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 as the older and more easily accessible wells. has already pioneered only cintra for. steve's designed to better withstand the long months of sand blasting the receiver underground and while not. 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 boost 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 has undergone serious degradation from the factors common inside oil wells. to make the stage door effective. in this situation the application of the spray tungsten carbide coating 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 fed a station 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 when it comes to producing new machinery black stuff from down below small parts can have 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. question is that so much as i can recall an accomplice. of america going to the polls it would appear that nothing's interest charge the republican party and hot tea tea partiers for the g.o.p. .