Electrum is a natural alloy of gold and silver.
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Electrum
//ɪˈlɛktɹəm//
Synonyms for "electrum" (4 found)
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Translations
20 translations across 17 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- إلكتروم noun (alloy of gold and silver)
Bulgarian
1 entries- електрон noun (alloy of gold and silver)
Catalan
1 entries- electre noun (alloy of gold and silver)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 琥珀金 noun (alloy of gold and silver)
Czech
1 entries- elektrum noun (alloy of gold and silver)
Egyptian
1 entries- S40-m-nbw:N33A noun (alloy of gold and silver)
Finnish
2 entries- elektrum noun (alloy of gold and silver)
- viherkulta noun (alloy of gold and silver)
French
1 entries- électrum noun (alloy of gold and silver)
German
1 entries- Elektron noun (alloy of gold and silver)
Greek
1 entries- ήλεκτρο noun (alloy of gold and silver)
Korean
2 entries- 엘렉트럼 noun (alloy of gold and silver)
- 호박금 noun (alloy of gold and silver)
Spanish
1 entries- electro noun (alloy of gold and silver)
Swedish
2 entries- elektron noun (alloy of gold and silver)
- elektrum noun (alloy of gold and silver)
Turkish
1 entries- elektrum noun (alloy of gold and silver)
Ukrainian
1 entries- еле́ктрум noun (alloy of gold and silver)
Vietnamese
1 entries- electrum noun (alloy of gold and silver)
Welsh
1 entries- electrwm noun (alloy of gold and silver)
Sample sentences
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Native gold almost always contains silver in amounts varying widely between 5 and 50 per cent. This natural alloy is known as electrum although in classical antiquity where the word originated it seems to have been used for an artificial alloy of the two metals.
Source: wiktionary
A natural alloy containing more than 20 per cent silver is called electrum, and was regarded by the ancients as a different metal from gold.
Source: wiktionary
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