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An alloy of nickel and silver electroplated with silver.
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(chemistry) One of a class of caustic bases, such as soda, soda ash, caustic soda, potash, ammonia, and lithia, whose distinguishing peculiarities are solubility in alcohol and water, uniting with oils and fats to form soap, neutralizing and forming salts with acids, turning to brown several vegetable yellows, and changing reddened litmus to blue.
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A metal that is a combination of two or more elements, at least one of which is a metal.
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steel that has been alloyed with other materials in order to improve its mechanical properties
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An element that is used to make up an alloy.
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An alloy of aluminium, nickel and cobalt, sometimes alloyed with smaller amounts of iron, copper, titanium and used primarily in the manufacture of magnets.
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A magnetic alloy of approximately 95% nickel, 2% aluminium, 2% manganese, and 1% silicon, used to make the negative conductors of certain thermocouples.
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(inorganic chemistry) the production of a metal from its oxide by heating it with aluminium
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(archaic) Variant of orpiment [arsenic trisulphide, occurring naturally in crystals or massive deposits, formerly used as a dye or pigment]
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(chemistry) gold, used in the names of various substances (see Derived terms)
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A special type of microstructure that occurs when ductile iron is austempered, consisting of acicular ferrite in carbon-enriched austenite.
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A solid solution or carbon or ferric carbide in iron that exists in steel at high temperatures.
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a steel that has nickel in it
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(countable) A single atom of this element.
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(obsolete, chemistry) copper sulphate
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A mixture of carbon dioxide and oxygen gas.
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(trademark) A composite material consisting of tungsten carbide particles cemented into a cobalt or nickel binder, notable for its hardness and heat-resistance, used e.g. in cutters and machine tools.
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Any of a range of alloys of iron and carbon whose properties depend on the proportion of carbon.
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Being a certain type of metal alloy.
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a chondrite which contains a high level of organic matter
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(inorganic chemistry) A form of iron carbide, Fe₃C, that is a component of steel.
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(mineralogy) A form of sodium nitrate that occurs naturally in parts of Chile and Peru.
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An alloy of approximately 90% nickel and 10% chromium by weight, used to make the positive conductors of certain thermocouples.
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A kind of steel alloy containing some chromium and molybdenum.
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An alloy of copper and nickel whose resistivity is constant over a wide temperature range.
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A synthetic chemical used as a colorant in paints and dyes. First used in 1929. In pure form it is an intense blue. It is chlorinated to produce very intense dark green, and brominated and chlorinated copper phthalocyanines are mixed to produce a yellower emerald green.
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An alloy of copper containing from 10 to 40% nickel.
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(metallurgy) An alloy of copper and titanium obtained by reducing a mixture of copper and rutile.
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A particular allotrope of iron.
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(metallurgy) An alloy of over 90% aluminium, 4% copper and traces of manganese, magnesium, iron and silicon, widely used in the aircraft industry.
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Any of various related alloys.
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Synonym of constantan (“copper-nickel alloy”)
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Combined or mixed with ferrate or other iron compound
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(often attributive) An audio cassette tape formulation having a five-micron ferric base coated with one micron of chromium dioxide pigment.
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(often attributive) An audio cassette tape formulation consisting of fine ferric particles encapsulated in a thin layer of cobalt-iron mix.
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A suspension of magnetic iron particles used as a contrast agent
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Any of a class of metal oxides which show ferrimagnetism; used in transformers, inductors, antennas, recording heads, microwave devices, motors and loudspeakers.
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Any alloy of iron and another metal, especially one of silicon, manganese, chromium, vanadium, tungsten, titanium and molybdenum; used in the production of specialist steels as they have a lower melting point than the pure metal.
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A ferroalloy of iron and aluminium.
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Alternative form of ferroaluminium [A ferroalloy of iron and aluminium.]
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An alloy of iron and boron used in the production of specialist steels
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A form of steel with a very high concentration of carbon (approximately 10%).
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An alloy made by the reduction of ilmenite with coke in an electric furnace
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A pyrophoric alloy of iron and cerium that is used to make the flints for cigarette lighters
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A corrosion-resistant alloy of chrome and iron containing between 50% and 65% chrome.
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An alloy of iron and chromium
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A ferroalloy of iron and magnesium.
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A ferromagnetic form of magnetite; lodestone
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An alloy, of iron and manganese, used in the manufacture of steel
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Any alloy that is rich in iron.
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An iron-molybdenum alloy.
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A ferroalloy of iron and nickel.
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An important alloy of iron and niobium.
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(physics, chemistry) paper impregnated with magnetic nanoparticles of iron oxide
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A ferroalloy of iron and phosphorus.
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(physics, chemistry) Any of a class of iron pnictide materials that are superconductors.
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An alloy of iron and silicon used in steelmaking.
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An alloy of iron with 15-45% titanium; used in the manufacture of specialist steel
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A ferroalloy of iron and tungsten.
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A ferroalloy of iron and uranium.
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(chemistry) A ferromagnetic valley (local minimum)
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An alloy of iron and up to 55% vanadium; used in the manufacture of specialist steel
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A particular ferroin that is used as an indicator for the presence of iron
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(chemistry) Pertaining to, obtained from or containing fluorine
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Something that causes fluorine to be added
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Alternative form of Galinstan [An alloy of gallium, indium and tin which is liquid at room temperature.]
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Alternative spelling of gamma iron. [(metallurgy) An allotropic form of iron which is stable at high temperatures. It is used in the manufacture of austenite.]
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An alloy of iron, carbon, and silicon that contains 1.7 to 4.5% carbon and 1 to 3% silicon.
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Any of a group of alloys containing nickel, molybdenum, etc.
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An artificial magnetic material, a barium-strontium ferrite, used in jewellery.
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Alternative form of high-entropy alloy [(metallurgy) a type of metallic alloy containing not one dominant element, but multiple major elements, with a single crystalline structure and existing in a single phase]
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(chemistry) Pertaining to, or containing, or obtained from, hydrogen, ferric iron, and cyanogen.
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A corrosion and oxidation resistant nickel-chromium superalloy family which retains strength at high temperatures
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An alloy of iron containing 35.5% nickel, and having a very low coefficient of expansion.
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(uncountable, physics, chemistry, metallurgy) A metallic chemical element having atomic number 26 and symbol Fe.
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small fragments of iron, filed from a bar; used to visualize the presence of a magnetic field, and as a food additive
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(metallurgy) a mixture of 4.3% carbon in iron
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(inorganic chemistry) Relating to lithium
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An alloy of 75% aluminium with about 25% magnesium.
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Alternative form of magnalium [An alloy of 75% aluminium with about 25% magnesium.]
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Cast steel containing a considerable percentage (10-14%) of manganese, which makes it very hard and tough and highly resistant to wear.
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Any of several alloys of copper, manganese and nickel used in the manufacture of electrical resistors because of the thermal stability of their resistance
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A high-strength, but low-carbon, workable steel alloy with 15-25% nickel and lesser amounts of cobalt and other materials, that achieves it strength by a martensitic structure achieved by heat treatment and aging.
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(metallurgy) A solid solution of carbon in iron; the chief constituent of steel
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A form of Zamak alloy using a different kind of zinc.
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(obsolete) Any of the plants known as mercury, especially the annual mercury or French mercury (Mercurialis annua).
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An alloy of nickel and copper
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Containing a single ferric iron atom or ion
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(chemistry, archaic) An alloy resembling silver, consisting chiefly of copper, zinc, and nickel, with small proportions of tin, aluminium, and bismuth.
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Alternative letter-case form of Nichrome [An alloy of nickel and chromium, typically 80% nickel and 20% chromium, used to make heating elements.]
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(chemistry, industrial) steel that contains approximately 6% of nickel, increasing its strength
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(of an ore, alloy, or metal object) Rich in nickel: having a high proportion of nickel content.
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(chemistry) Containing trivalent nickel.
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(metallurgy) Any of various black metal alloys, made of sulphur with copper, silver or lead, used to create decorative designs on other metals.
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(geology) Alternative form of nife [(geology) nickel–iron, especially the material that makes up the core of the Earth]
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Any of a family of nickel-based high-temperature low-creep superalloys, typically consisting of more than 50% nickel and 20% chromium with additives such as titanium and aluminium.
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Alternative form of Nitinol [An alloy of nickel and titanium that has the ability to return to a predetermined shape when heated.]
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Steel produced by reduction of iron oxides by carbon.
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Any of a class of nickel/iron alloys that have a high magnetic permeability.
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An alloy, especially a specialist form of steel, that contains phosphorus and tungsten
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A steel containing more phosphorus than carbon.
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(chemistry, dyeing) The double chlorides of (stannic) tin and ammonium, formerly much used as a mordant for madder and cochineal.
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(chemistry, obsolete) impure zinc oxide
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A finely divided nickel-aluminum alloy that has been treated with NaOH to dissolve out most of the aluminum.
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(dated) cobalt(II) sulfate
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Alternative spelling of semimetal [(inorganic chemistry) A metalloid.]
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(inorganic chemistry) Containing silicate or silica
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An alloy of iron and silicon that has important magnetic properties.
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A ferromanganese alloy containing approximately 15% manganese and small quantities of carbon and silicon.
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An alloy of iron and chromium that resists corrosion.
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Any of a range of alloys of cobalt and chromium.
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(often attributive) An audio cassette tape formulation that is a high-quality ferricobalt.
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Any alloy of titanium and a metal or nonmetal
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(chemistry) An intermetallic compound of titanium and aluminium, TiAl, used as a heat-resistant material in high-speed aircraft
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Any of a range of alloys of vanadium and steel having improved strength and high-temperature stability
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A corrosion-resistant alloy of mainly cobalt with chromium and molybdenum, used in dentistry and artificial joints.
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(chemistry) Mercury(II) oxide
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(pharmacology) Yellow oxide of mercury suspended in water; a mixture prepared by adding corrosive sublimate to limewater.
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Of or pertaining to yttrium.
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An alloy of aluminium with zinc and small amounts of magnesium and copper
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(UK, dated, colloquial) A zinc countertop.
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Alternative form of zircaloy [(metallurgy, nuclear industry) Any of a set of specialist alloys of zirconium]
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(metallurgy, nuclear industry) Any of a set of specialist alloys of zirconium
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An alloy of zirconium with tin, chromium and nickel, widely used, especially in the nuclear power industry, for its heat- and corrosion-resistant properties
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