Progress took off in the 2000s, when supercomputer simulations let theorists predict the properties of various hydrides, and the widespread use of compact diamond anvils let experimentalists squeeze the most promising candidates to test their mettle.
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INSIDER TIP: Anvil is not for the faint of wallet: fresh ingredients set imbibers back $8-$12 per cocktail.
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Murmelstein was stuck with a thankless and impossible job, caught between the hammer and the anvil, as he tells us.
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He seems relieved—like an anvil has been lifted from his shoulders—and so are we.
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If we had these rules, everybody would have known what was going on at JPMorgan Chase long before the anvil dropped on their head.
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But the popularity of the league is absolutely irrelevant anyway in terms of race: It still hovers like an anvil.
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Yes, they were ready in good time to play the anvil chorus on the heads of the lively gang of insulters.
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Then he brought the chain and the anvil, and welded the red-hot iron upon her limb.
The Flockmaster of Poison Creek|George W. Ogden
We want somebody to tell him what the ol' man wants—ol' Horne of the Anvil.
The Sheriff of Badger|George B. Pattullo
He heats it upon an anvil, till it becomes nearly thin enough for his purpose.
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I got my litre at a blacksmith's; they brought me out a chair under a tree, and I ate and drank to the ring of the anvil.
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British Dictionary definitions for anvil
anvil
/ (ˈænvɪl) /
noun
a heavy iron or steel block on which metals are hammered during forging
any part having a similar shape or function, such as the lower part of a telegraph key
the fixed jaw of a measurement device against which the piece to be measured is held
anatomy the nontechnical name for incus
Word Origin for anvil
Old English anfealt; related to Old High German anafalz, Middle Dutch anvilte; see on, felt ²