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100,000 forty-foot sections of half-inch steel make the Trans-Alaska pipeline.The Trans-Alaska Pipeline is Alaska began the widespread use of niobium.A raw crystal of niobium is light gray, crystalline, yet very ductile.

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With 48-inch diameter steel pipes, 100,000 forty-foot sections of half-inch steel were welded together, culminating in the construction of the largest project ever undertaken by private industry.



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