base metal

Example Sentences

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Aluminum remains MS’s preferred base metal owing to production losses in the Middle East.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 9, 2026

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

The copper mining company fell as prices for the base metal slipped.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 27, 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