base metal

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You can call cobalt a base metal, or stick it with uranium in special metals.

From Barron's • Dec. 26, 2025

Pairing these metal oxides with a conductive carbon network improves electron movement and prevents the particles from clumping together, which is a frequent issue in conventional base metal catalysts.

From Science Daily • Dec. 11, 2025

A proposed $53 billion merger between Anglo American and Teck Resources, the mining sector’s biggest deal for a decade, amounts to a giant play on future demand for the base metal.

From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 10, 2025

The copper producer rose along with prices for the base metal.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 8, 2023

The queen dubbed it “the Chrysopoesium”—from chrysopoeia, the transmutation of base metal into gold—and she wore her necklace of his hair when she came to present it to him.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor