Alloy

(noun.) a mixture containing two or more metallic elements or metallic and nonmetallic elements usually fused together or dissolving into each other when molten; 'brass is an alloy of zinc and copper'.

(verb.) make an alloy of.

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• A ring or watch case marked 14K or 18K means that fourteen or eighteen parts of it are pure gold, the balance of the twenty-four carats being some sort of alloy, copper being generally used. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• But Scipio Africanus lacked that harder alloy which makes men great democratic leaders. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The alloy of gold and silver is found already formed in nature, and is that most generally known. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• The fearlessness of the Chicago confession was melted down into a featureless alloy. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• All this made the feast delightful, and when the waiter was not there to watch me, my pleasure was without alloy. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• In India, where zinc and copper ore occur together, brass (which is an alloy of the two metals) was similarly hit upon. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Nations have sometimes, for the same purpose, adulterated the standard of their coin; that is, have mixed a greater quantity of alloy in it. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Their alchemy was closely associated with metallurgy, the making of alloys and amalgams, and th e handicrafts of the goldsmiths and silversmiths. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• Palladium, rhodium and tellurium are also met with as alloys of gold. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Alloys, or mixtures of different metals, act in a similar manner, but in varying degrees. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• The Cowles process heats to incandescence by the electric current a mixture of alumina, carbon and copper, the reduced aluminum alloying with the copper. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• Of these four were of pure gold weighing two talents and a half each, and the others of gold alloyed with silver weighing two talents. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The leaves are about three and a quarter inches square and are produced in ten different shades of color, according as the gold was alloyed with much or little copper or silver. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.

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