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Alloy

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.

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Amalgam 76% connected

An alloy of mercury with another metal or metals; as, an amalgam of tin, bismuth, etc.

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Babbitt 76% connected

To line with Babbitt metal.

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Babbitt metal 76% connected

A soft white alloy of variable composition (as a nine parts of tin to one of copper, or of fifty parts of tin to five of antimony and one of copper)…

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Electrum 76% connected

Amber.

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Oreide 76% connected

See Oroide.

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Oroide 76% connected

An alloy, chiefly of copper and zinc or tin, resembling gold in color and brilliancy.

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Pewter 76% connected

A hard, tough, but easily fusible, alloy, originally consisting of tin with a little lead, but afterwards modified by the addition of copper, antimon…

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Pinchbeck 76% connected

An alloy of copper and zinc, resembling gold; a yellow metal, composed of about three ounces of zinc to a pound of copper. It is much used as an imit…

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Solder 76% connected

A metal or metallic alloy used when melted for uniting adjacent metallic edges or surfaces; a metallic cement.

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Steel 76% connected

A variety of iron intermediate in composition and properties between wrought iron and cast iron (containing between one half of one per cent and one…

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Tambac 76% connected

See Tombac.

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Tombac 76% connected

An alloy of copper and zinc, resembling brass, and containing about 84 per cent of copper; -- called also German, / Dutch, brass. It is very malleabl…

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Wood's metal 76% connected

A fusible alloy consisting of one or two parts of cadmium, two parts of tin, four of lead, with seven or eight part of bismuth. It melts at from 66?…

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Blend 76% connected

To mix or mingle together; esp. to mingle, combine, or associate so that the separate things mixed, or the line of demarcation, can not be distinguis…

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Coalesce 76% connected

To grow together; to unite by growth into one body; as, the parts separated by a wound coalesce.

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Combine 76% connected

To unite or join; to link closely together; to bring into harmonious union; to cause or unite so as to form a homogeneous substance, as by chemical u…

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Commingle 76% connected

To mingle together; to mix in one mass, or intimately; to blend.

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Conflate 76% connected

To blow together; to bring together; to collect; to fuse together; to join or weld; to consolidate.

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Flux 76% connected

The act of flowing; a continuous moving on or passing by, as of a flowing stream; constant succession; change.

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Fuse 76% connected

To liquefy by heat; to render fiuid; to dissolve; to melt.

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Immix 76% connected

To mix; to mingle.

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Impureness 76% connected

The quality or condition of being impure; impurity.

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Impurity 76% connected

The condition or quality of being impure in any sense; defilement; foulness; adulteration.

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Merge 76% connected

To cause to be swallowed up; to immerse; to sink; to absorb.

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Mix 76% connected

To cause a promiscuous interpenetration of the parts of, as of two or more substances with each other, or of one substance with others; to unite or b…

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Mixture 76% connected

The act of mixing, or the state of being mixed; as, made by a mixture of ingredients.

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Debase 74% connected

To reduce from a higher to a lower state or grade of worth, dignity, purity, station, etc.; to degrade; to lower; to deteriorate; to abase; as, to de…

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Debase 74% connected

To reduce from a higher to a lower state or grade of worth, dignity, purity, station, etc.; to degrade; to lower; to deteriorate; to abase; as, to de…

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Debaser 74% connected

One who, or that which, debases.

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Debaser 74% connected

One who, or that which, debases.

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Admixture 92% connected

The act of mixing; mixture.

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Debase 92% connected

To reduce from a higher to a lower state or grade of worth, dignity, purity, station, etc.; to degrade; to lower; to deteriorate; to abase; as, to de…

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Metal 92% connected

An elementary substance, as sodium, calcium, or copper, whose oxide or hydroxide has basic rather than acid properties, as contrasted with the nonmet…

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