metallic

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Next to them, Sheepstealer boasts no glorious lineage or handsome metallic scales.

From Salon • Jun. 24, 2026

“There is a chemical, metallic taste to it that makes one think it was created in some renegade CIA lab.”

From The Wall Street Journal • May 20, 2026

Rare earths are a group of 17 metallic elements that have been described as the spice of manufacturing.

From Barron's • May 13, 2026

The Vienna research team, led by Markus Arndt and Stefan Gerlich, has now extended these quantum effects to much larger metallic nanoparticles for the first time.

From Science Daily • May 11, 2026

With the shiny metallic parts in hand, they began to build the model, adding part to part, as if building a house of cards.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee