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It appeared to him that the old people were dead, and that he had been taken to the iron foundry to be melted down.

whether the metal they were using for its frame would be requisitioned for the war and melted down into bullets.

Tongchuan city officials believe the radioactive material - and its protective container - are likely to have been melted down.

Of course, many of the clothes hitting stores now were in the works long before global financial markets melted down in the fall.

It takes up to eight recycled plastic bottles to make each of the shirts, which are melted down before being processed into fabric.

All three distressed reactors are thought to have at least partly melted down.

All her gold and silver idols would be melted down as a part of the plunder taken by the idolatrous Assyrians (1: 7).

"It's the last one we know left in existence, " Baker said. "There have been larger ones over the years, but they have been melted down. "

Officials told the BBC that they had detected what may be the missing Caesium-137, adding that it may have been melted down.

The Caesium-137 may be buried in a scrap yard under tonnes of metal, and local officials believe it could have been melted down.

He charges up to $40 per tooth, using gold melted down from jewelry and trinkets he buys from secret suppliers.

Before the hall was suddenly closed in 2008, a rise in the price of gold led some to worry that the famous toilet might be melted down.

after the assassination , the remains were melted down , far from the drivers who longed to save them.

The chief watched as the Spanish quickly melted down the gold and stacked the bars on the scales for distribution.

Miyazaki has claimed that the building contains a nuclear reactor that has long since melted down.

And a growing amount has come from recycling-old jewelry and the like being melted down for scrap.

"That is if I am not melted down, " said the lamp.

The party host pays them with cash or a check, then ships the gold to a refinery, where it is melted down and recycled.

So that the plastic can be melted down and re-molded without any discoloration!

The furniture inside the room also remained intact and only the TV set was melted down by the heat.

A llama figurine from a sacrificial burial escaped being melted down by the Spanish.

British prime minister Gordon Brown's golden rule has been melted down and sold with the family silver.

and then melted down into a pool of peace.

Using less valuable metals makes sure the coins will stay in circulation, not get stored or melted down.

The state offers fair prices for scrapiron to be melted down for reuse.

Those empty tins are then melted down and reused .

A lot of scrap metal can be melted down and used again.

Many of the gold ornaments were melted down to be made into coins.

Three reactors melted down after the tsunami wrecked their cooling systems.

But the banks have largely melted down without the help of panicking depositors.

Then they had already melted down for I held them the whole time.

They melted down the lead and poured it into moulds.

She always melted down the plate she bought.

She put stones of various colors together and melted down them.

If I buy it, I'll wear it, not have it melted down.

The lead from the church roof was melted down to make bullets.

They melted down metal scrap.

they melted down the silver cups