Silver also serves a more
than useful industrial purpose and is used extensively in a growing number of manufacturing processes, including solar energy panels for example.
Not exact matches
The answer is that other
than a small number of applications (the approx. 10 % of gold production that goes to «
industrial uses») gold does not have intrinsic value beyond being pretty and rare (and
useful for making jewelry.)
LOS ANGELES — If you ever admired Eero Saarinen's modernist Tulip chair, a mid-20th-century
industrial design icon, and thought it made for better sculpture
than whatever you just saw in the art gallery down the street, you will enjoy The
Useful and the Decorative at the Landing.
Useful thermal output: The thermal energy made available in a combined - heat - and - power system for use in any
industrial or commercial process, heating or cooling application, or delivered to other end users, i.e., total thermal energy made available for processes and applications other
than electrical generation.