Alloy

//ˈæ.lɔɪ//

"Alloy" in a Sentence (17 examples)

Brass is an alloy of copper and zinc.

ODS super alloy is produced by the mechanical alloy method following powder metallurgy.

Cast iron is an alloy of iron and carbon.

No joy without alloy.

I've never seen a metal of that color before; it's probably an alloy.

Electrum is a natural alloy of gold and silver.

Presently, prosthetics rely on relatively heavy hydraulic, electric or pneumatic actuators to flex artificial fingers, but scientists at Germany's Saarland University are experimenting with much lighter fibers made of a nickel-titanium alloy that change shape when connected to a source of electricity.

As an example, Ross said only one U.S. company now produces a high-quality aluminum alloy needed for military aircraft.

Aboard the satellite, two cylindrical masses — one made of titanium and one of a platinum-rhodium alloy — will be controlled to remain motionless.

The question of whether it is at all possible to hold caramel ice cream was answered in the affirmative in 2019 by an international team of scientists who made a glove out of an ultra-tough tungsten molybdenum alloy and were able to successfully hold it for a split second before they, too, succumbed to temptation and ate it all up.

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gold without alloy

Many of these coins are preserved at the British Museum, in London, and at the Ashmolean Museum, in Oxford, and are all of pure gold, without alloy, and in a good state of preservation. Boadicea, Queen of the Iceni, is also said to have[…]

Metrodorus said that in sadnesse there is some aloy of pleasure.

The sole grievance and alloy thus removed in the prospect of Harriet’s welfare, she was really in danger of becoming too happy for security.

SETH KITANGE TELEVISION AND RADIO Upheaval at CBS. […] Bill Moyers, a CBS News commentator and special correspondent, expressed his dismay in an interview with Newsweek in which he said, “Television news has never been pure. It has always been an alloy of journalism and show business.”

to alloy gold with silver or copper, or silver with copper

to alloy pleasure with misfortunes

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