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  • The green visage acclaimed makeup artist Jack Dawn created for actress Margaret Hamilton was copper-based and toxic, not to mention highly flammable -- it accidentally ignited while filming, burning the actress severely.

    Jennifer Grayson: Eco Etiquette: What's the Best Eco-Friendly Makeup? Jennifer Grayson 2011

  • The green visage acclaimed makeup artist Jack Dawn created for actress Margaret Hamilton was copper-based and toxic, not to mention highly flammable -- it accidentally ignited while filming, burning the actress severely.

    Jennifer Grayson: Eco Etiquette: What's the Best Eco-Friendly Makeup? Jennifer Grayson 2011

  • During his tenure, Mr. Stephenson has worked to shift the company away from its roots in copper-based land lines, which dates back to Alexander Graham Bell, and into faster-growing fields like wireless and video.

    AT&T Chief's Bold Bet Roger Cheng 2011

  • The vote means Telstra will progressively shut down its copper-based network over the next 10 years, transfer its customers across to NBN Co. and allow the entity access to its infrastructure.

    Telstra Investors Approve Internet Deal By Gavin Lower 2011

  • The greatest disparity in advertised and received broadband speeds came with copper-based DSL phone lines, used in more than 75% of UK homes.

    UK broadband connections 'only half as fast as advertised' 2011

  • More effectively, sprays of hydrogen dioxide, or copper-based formulations, both considered organic, will do the trick.

    Groundwork: The word on cukes 2010

  • I still have copper-based landline phone service from Verizon and I'm not ready to ditch that service yet.

    Verizon Won't Verify Calls On My Bill - The Consumerist 2009

  • Squids also use hemocyanin instead of hemoglobin - thus the protein that carries oxygen in their blood is copper-based, like Spock's on Star Trek.

    Update frankwu 2006

  • Further experiment led them to offer the discovery as a pigment that was less expensive than ultramarine reference, more stable than copper-based blues, and more versatile than indigo.

    The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe 2006

  • Margaret Hamilton who played the part in the movie suffered major health problems because the pigment in her make-up was copper-based and seeped through her skin into her blood stream.

    Archive 2006-05-01 Will 2006

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