51.   In other markets, palladium advanced sharply, boosted by strong sales in the automobile industry which uses the metal heavily, and pork bellies retreated.

52.   In pure form, the metal is used in tiny quantities as a catalyst in the making of fertilizer and in other chemical processes.

53.   It was a stage when people were using copper and sheet gold, and were about to learn how to use complicated metals.

54.   The Cleveland-based company is a leading miner and refiner of beryllium, a light but strong metal used in computers, telecommunications and automotive electronics.

55.   The metal is used in missiles, bombs and jet fighters.

56.   The metals are used in electronics and catalytic converters, which reduce automobile exhaust pollution.

57.   The metals are used to carry signals between millions of transistors packed into each thumbnail-sized piece of silicon.

58.   They apply to petrochemicals used by the textile industry, metals used by the electronics sector, automobile components and some farm goods.

59.   Three men were arrested Thursday on charges of trying to sell eight tons of zirconium, a metal used in nuclear processing, to federal agents posing as Iraqis.

60.   Three men were arrested Thursday for trying to sell eight tons of zirconium, a metal used in nuclear processing, to federal agents posing as Iraqis.