alloy
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It used a strong, lightweight vanadium steel alloy to improve durability and featured a high ground clearance engineered to navigate dirt roads.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026
De-emphasizing China is a long process that stretches from the mine to ore processing to metal and alloy making to magnet production.
From Barron's • Apr. 9, 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
Little metal was used in our straps and fittings, but the harnesses had buckles of aluminum alloy, too fine to fasten with mittens on, which burned in that cold exactly as if they were red-hot.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
Vocabulary lists containing alloy
Gold Rush: Mining and Metals
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Vocabulary from The Articles of Confederation
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