A single hopper-style rail car contains an amount of metallurgical coal sufficient to smelt the steel used to manufacture three hundred automobiles.
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Metallurgical
/ˌmɛtəˈlɜː(ɹ)dʒɪkəl/
Synonyms for "metallurgical" (10 found)
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Closest matches (2)
Adjective(2 words)
metallic materials sciencemetallographic
Strong matches (3)
Adjective(3 words)
Related words (5)
Adjective(3 words)
Noun(2 words)
metalworking processessmelting
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13 entrieselectrometallurgyextractive metallurgyfractographygrain boundary analysisgrain size analysishardness testinghydrometallurgymechanical property assessmentmicroscopymicrostructure analysisphase transformation studyphysical metallurgypyrometallurgy
Collocations
6 entriesextractive metallurgymetallographic examinationmetallurgical analysismetallurgical processphysical metallurgypyrometallurgy
Inflections
2 entriesmore metallurgicalmost metallurgical
Derivations
3 entriesSample sentences
2 total sentences available.
Mining is bound to become a still stronger factor in civilization as metallurgical processes multiply and there are discovered means of more economically extracting the valuable contents of ores.
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