Trace Metals. Metals, including nickel, iron, and vanadium are often found in crude oils in small quantities and are removed during the refining process. Burning heavy fuel oils in refinery furnaces and boilers can leave deposits of vanadium oxide and nickel oxide in furnace boxes, ducts, and tubes.
Chandra, meet Sultan â Chandra Bahadur Dangi, at 21Â½ inches the shortest adult ever verified by Guinness World Records, poses Thursday in London with the world's tallest man, Sultan Kosen, who stands 8 feet 3 inches tall. Chandra, meet Sultan â Dangi, 74, is a weaver in a remote village of Nepal. He weighs just 32 pounds.
If you are an adult male from Scandinavia you may be considered short at 5 feet 11 inches, but if you are an adult male from certain parts of Asia, 5 feet 10 inches may be tall and short is less than 5 feet 3 inches. Whether you are considered to be short or tall depends on the people you live among, and is not precisely defined.