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scrap metalUsed metals that are an important source of industrial metals and alloys, particularly in the production of steel, copper, lead, aluminum, and zinc. Smaller amounts of tin, nickel, magnesium, and precious metals are also recovered from scrap. Impurities consisting of such organic materials as wood, plastic, paint, and fabric can be burned off. Scrap is usually blended and remelted to produce alloys similar to or more complex than those from which the scrap was derived. See also recycling. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| FPT), a Detroit-based scrap metal company, has acquired M. It's boom times in the scrap metal industry, thanks to insatiable demand from the expanding Chinese economy. They also encouraged several scrap metal companies to set up properly equipped facilities, and facilitated the export of some fridges to Germany, which has the recycling capacity to handle them. |
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