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.
The 21-year-old, who suffers from dwarfism, lives with her parents Ibrahim and Hatun and was also recently certified as the second-smallest adult human alive by the Guiness Book of Records. The only adult she is taller than is Nepalese man Khagendra Thapa Magar who at 25.8 inches is the world's smallest person. 'There were no problems in my pregnancy with her and I gave birth naturally,' said her mother Hatun.