Abstract: A shipper ships cargo from an origin to a destination and has documentation in an electronic form for a requester regarding the cargo. The requester is logged into the retrieval system and an interface of the retrieval system is provided to the logged-in requestor to allow same to search for items of documentation relating to such requester and such cargo based on indicia associated with each item. The search results include a number of items of documentation, and an identification of a number of particular ones of the items in the set of search results is received from the requester. The retrieval system creates a merged electronic document containing all of the identified items of documentation and the created merged document is delivered from the retrieval system to one of the requester and a destination selected by the requester.

Abstract: The pyrophoric fines inevitably resulting from the crushing of zirconium and/or hafnium or other exotic metal fines, such as titanium and uranium, are brought into contact with molten magnesium or a molten mixture of magnesium and magnesium chloride in the usual vacuum distillation furnace so that their surfaces are wetted by the molten material, after which furnace temperature is dropped to solidify the molten material about the fines. Furnace temperature is then raised to that required to vaporize the magnesium and magnesium chloride, whereupon sintering of the fines takes place over a period of time.