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Materials and Man's Needs Materials Science and Engineering -- Volume III, The Institutional Framework for Materials Science and Engineering (1975) / Chapter Skim
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Introduction
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... Competing in the marketplace under ground rules established by society through its governmental bodies, private industry attempts to minimize the cost of materials utilization to produce quality goods that satisfy its customers and to provide a reasonable return on investment to its owners. As discussed in earlier chapters, the concept of the materials cycle, or the physical flow of materials, is very useful for perceiving the interrelationships of the various stages of extraction, conversion, processing, fabrication or assembly, product utilization, and scrap disposal or recycling.
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... Because of future prospects regarding changes in the character of the sources of traditional materials and the increasing utility of newer materials such as aluminum, electronic materials, and synthetic polymers -- and the increasing potential for designing materials to provide desired engineering performance -- it is important that appropriate attention be given to the continued development of the science and technology of materials. This evolving field, which already affects almost all of the capital and consumer goods that we are familiar with, promises to have a worthwhile influence on this nation's future economic, aesthetic, and social well-being.
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... 7-6 TABLE 7.1 Annual Requirements for Principal Primary Materials Used in the United States (Pounds per capita, 1972)
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