alloy
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It manufactures neodymium magnets by pouring liquid alloy onto a rotating, cooled disk, then rapidly quenching and pulverizing it to freeze the delicate crystalline structure at a microscopic scale before it can grow.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 2, 2026
Indonesia's President Prabowo Subianto also announced controls on exports of crude palm oil, coal and ferrous alloy as the country battles the economic headwinds fuelled by the Middle East war.
From Barron's • May 20, 2026
It covers the early production of bronze – a copper and tin alloy – up to the first uses of iron.
From BBC • Mar. 30, 2026
Within a few years the academy switched to a lighter tin-based alloy known as Britannia metal, plated in layers of copper, nickel silver and gold.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 12, 2026
The curved nails raked Holly’s helmet, scoring parallel grooves in the alloy.
From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer
Vocabulary lists containing alloy
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