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Allay :: Allay (n.) Alloy.

Lead :: Lead (n.) An article made of lead or an alloy of lea.

Alfenide :: Alfenide (n.) An alloy of nickel and silver electroplated with silver.

Tula Metal :: Tula metal () An alloy of silver, copper, and lead made at Tula in Russia..

Allay :: Allay (v. t.) To mix (metals); to mix with a baser metal; to alloy; to deteriorate.

Tin :: Tin (n.) An elementary substance found as an oxide in the mineral cassiterite, and reduced as a soft white crystalline metal, malleable at ordinary temperatures, but brittle when heated. It is not easily oxidized in the air, and is used chiefly to coat iron to protect it from rusting, in the form of tin foil with mercury to form the reflective surface of mirrors, and in solder, bronze, speculum metal, and other alloys. Its compounds are designated as stannous, or stannic. Symbol Sn (Stannum). At

Metallic :: Metallic (a.) Of or pertaining to a metal; of the nature of metal; resembling metal; as, a metallic appearance; a metallic alloy..

Occamy :: Occamy (n.) An alloy imitating gold or silver.

Braze :: Braze (v. i.) To solder with hard solder, esp. with an alloy of copper and zinc; as, to braze the seams of a copper pipe..

Halloysite :: Halloysite (n.) A claylike mineral, occurring in soft, smooth, amorphous masses, of a whitish color..

Packfong :: Packfong (n.) A Chinese alloy of nickel, zinc, and copper, resembling German silver..

Platiniridium :: Platiniridium (n.) A natural alloy of platinum and iridium occurring in grayish metallic rounded or cubical grains with platinum.

Touch-needle :: Touch-needle (n.) A small bar of gold and silver, either pure, or alloyed in some known proportion with copper, for trying the purity of articles of gold or silver by comparison of the streaks made by the article and the bar on a touchstone..

Terneplate :: Terneplate (a.) Thin iron sheets coated with an alloy of lead and tin; -- so called because made up of three metals.

Alloy :: Alloy (v. t.) Any combination or compound of metals fused together; a mixture of metals; for example, brass, which is an alloy of copper and zinc. But when mercury is one of the metals, the compound is called an amalgam..

Electrum :: Electrum (n.) An alloy of gold and silver, of an amber color, used by the ancients..

Lead :: Lead (n.) One of the elements, a heavy, pliable, inelastic metal, having a bright, bluish color, but easily tarnished. It is both malleable and ductile, though with little tenacity, and is used for tubes, sheets, bullets, etc. Its specific gravity is 11.37. It is easily fusible, forms alloys with other metals, and is an ingredient of solder and type metal. Atomic weight, 206.4. Symbol Pb (L. Plumbum). It is chiefly obtained from the mineral galena, lead sulphide..

Solder :: Solder (n.) A metal or metallic alloy used when melted for uniting adjacent metallic edges or surfaces; a metallic cement.

Parting :: Parting (n.) The separation and determination of alloys; esp., the separation, as by acids, of gold from silver in the assay button..

Glazer :: Glazer (n.) A tool or machine used in glazing, polishing, smoothing, etc.; amoung cutlers and lapidaries, a wooden wheel covered with emery, or having a band of lead and tin alloy, for polishing cutlery, etc..

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