Sentences with phrase «expensive nickel metal»

The stalwart in this category, the conservatively styled Camry Hybrid makes close to the same power with its 2.5 - liter engine, but relies on heavier, less - expensive nickel metal hydride batteries, and it weighs several hundred pounds more.

Not exact matches

Shanghai aluminum, nickel and lead crept higher, but copper gave up early gains to trade slightly lower as the dollar hit a four - month high, making the metal more expensive for holders of other currencies, and zinc slipped.

Investigators are pursuing several lines of attack to shrink the platinum content: using it more efficiently, replacing some or all of it with palladium (which performs similarly and is somewhat less expensive), replacing either of those precious metals with inexpensive metals, such as nickel or copper, and foregoing metals altogether.

The hydrogenation catalysts mostly used today contain toxic or expensive heavy metals, such as nickel, palladium or platinum.

The device could make hydrogen cars affordable for many more consumers because it produces hydrogen using nickel, iron and cobalt — elements that are much more abundant and less expensive than the platinum and other precious metals that are currently used to produce hydrogen fuel.

Replacing precious metals such as platinum with less expensive catalysts such as iron and nickel can result in both cost - savings and decreased environmental impacts.

Specifically, I usually skip the copper and use the slightly more expensive nickel anti-seize to avoid reactions with certain metals and increased temperature limits.

One of the most common questions I get involves longevity, partly because the nickel - metal - hydride battery pack is a very expensive component, apart from the issue of labor.

Metal: Brass and nickel - plated steel collars are obviously very strong and relatively expensive.

The device could make hydrogen cars affordable for many more consumers because it produces hydrogen using nickel, iron and cobalt — elements that are much more abundant and less expensive than the platinum and other precious metals that are currently used to produce hydrogen fuel.

In 1980 Dr. Holdren helped select five metals — chrome, copper, nickel, tin and tungsten — and joined Dr. Ehrlich and Dr. Harte in betting $ 1,000 that those metals would be more expensive ten years later.