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combinations of metals - that they would be suitable for making gun 1......
barrels. A few months later he had noticed that most of his rejected 2......
specimens had rusted although one was containing 14 per cent 3 ..........
chromium had not. The discovery led to the development of stainless 4 ..........
Steel. Ordinary Steel goes rusts because it reacts easily with oxygen in 5 ..........
the air to produce crumbly red oxides. other metals, such as aluminium, 6 ....................
nickel and chromium, also react in a much the same way but their oxides 7...
form an impermeable suríace layer, stopping oxygen to reacting with the
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metal underneath. With Brearley’s Steel, the chromium tormed such as 9....
a film, protecting the metal from turther attack, and the whole success of
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stainless Steel is based well on the fact that it has this one unique
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advantage. In fact, a variety of stainless steels are now made. One
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of the commonest contains of 18 per cent chromium and 8 per cent
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nickel and is used for kitchen sinks. Kitchen knives are made of Steel
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containing about 13 per cent chromium. A very more corrosion-resistant
alloy is achieved by adding up an incredibly small amount of the metal 15.
molybdenum -th ese steels are used as cladding for buildings.
32. WANTED

“VVanted” ran a small ad in The Times. “Assistant for the íamous cookery 0 ..........the
vvriter. Three-month contract - £400." The ad was ansvvered by a young 00.../
woman, recently widowed and with a small baby, desperate for work 1 .
of any kind. The hours were long and £400 seemed very little for three 2.........
months of employment. But she was absolutely desperate and she got 3 .
the job. It proved harder than she had been anticipated, as the íamous 4 .
vvriter proved as tyrannical, ungrateíul and a slave driver. The first week
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of helping to him was almost more than the young woman felt she could 6 .
stand. Only did the thought of the bread that she was putting in her
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baby’s mouth prevented her leaving from the job. At the end of the tirst
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week, she was given a lift at home by the cookery writer’s secretary. On 9 .
the way she contided how desperately she had needed the job and
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admitted just how vvelcome even the miserable £400 was mentioned in
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the advertisement would be. The secretary gave her such an odd look
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that the young woman asked what it the matter was. “I don’t think you
quite understand," ansvvered the secretary. “It’s you who has to pay 13 .
for him £400." At first the young vvoman was silent. She was temporarily 14 .
lost for some words, but then she began to laugh, and she laughed until 15 .
the tears poured down her cheeks. 16 .

33. MY AVOURTE FILM
l’m really a keen on going to the cinema, so IVe got lots of íavourite 1............
tilms. But the best one as l’ve seen lately is called Pressure. In some 2.................
ways, I suppose that you could regard it as a detective film but it’s 3 .
different from most films of that one kind because the characters are 4 .
they such unusual people. The detective in it, for example, is a Computer 5 .

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