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Cooling a metal generally increases its strength, but this improvement can come with a serious drawback.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 31, 2026

The battery metal has been on a roller-coaster ride in recent years, as the small but fast-growing market manages mismatches in supply and demand-as well as sudden swings in sentiment.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

She added that the scaffolding meant she sometimes had to keep the lights on during the day, particularly in her son's bedroom which is obscured by a metal guard.

From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026

An on-floor engineer remarked that they sell their scrap metal, and the price has skyrocketed—something they take as a sure indication that the economy is going down the tubes.

From Slate ● Oct. 29, 2026

Not one shiny piece of metal could be seen.

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls

This setup allowed the team to measure the forces the metals could withstand and determine how far they could stretch before breaking.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 31, 2026

The discovery challenges long-standing ideas about how metals behave at extremely low temperatures and could help engineers develop tougher materials for some of the harshest environments imaginable.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 31, 2026

Find insight on precious metals, Air Liquide and more in the latest Market Talks covering basic materials.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

Paladin EnviroTech, a recycling company eyeing a new role as a supplier of rare-earth metals, has identified old wind turbines, whose room-size generators can house huge rare-earth magnets, as its top target.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

There was no reason to believe that he gave it one hundredth the importance of the structure of metals, for which he took great delight in making soap-bubble models.

From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson

Coutu/Los Angeles and Jeanne Saddler/Washington, with other U.S. bureaus Frozen in bronze, the black infantrymen trudge forever forward, their rifles scraping the metaled sky.

From Time Magazine Archive

The hard soles of his shoes rapped loudly on the metaled road like a giant clock, and he made himself think about time, about his great hoard, the luxury of an unspent fortune.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan

The metaled turnpikes would dwindle and end in clay roads.

From The Code of the Mountains by Charles Neville Buck

He rode about the city those days behind a team of spirited bays, whose glossy hides and metaled harness bespoke the watchful care of hostler and coachman.

From The Financier, a novel by Theodore Dreiser

That he would be until they returned to metaled roads and electric-tramways; then the lover, with the lover's message to deliver....

From Caravans By Night A Romance of India by Harry Hervey

The Captain's Road, which links two droving inns, Tibbie Shiel's and Tushielaw, was one of the earliest metalled roads connecting the Ettrick and Yarrow valleys.

From BBC ● Jun. 2, 2022

Today we talk about capital cities and forums, as well as structures such as amphitheatres, basilicas, metalled roads, pavements and multi-storey apartment blocks because of the idea of the city that Rome bequeathed us.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 15, 2016

Down in the depths of the holloway, you could see neither metalled roads nor telegraph poles, nor even the most distant glimpses of the outsized golf balls of the early warning radar up on Fylingdales.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 19, 2013

In the backwater districts which Henry administered, servants took the place of the "water supply, sanitation, metalled roads, mechanical transport and shops of Western communities."

From Time Magazine Archive

Streets leading to the bridge have been graded and metalled over and are passable at all times.

From Some Reminiscences of old Victoria by Edgar Fawcett

There was a purring of wheels in the air and the staccato clatter of a horse's hoofs on the hard metaling of the pike.

From The Quickening by E. M. Ashe

The hand he had been holding behind him came to the front, clutching a stone snatched up from the metaling of the pike as he ran.

From The Quickening by E. M. Ashe

Nails, felt and labour metalling are subject to a deduction of one-third.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" by Various

Added to these machines was one of Blake's stone-crushers to break stone of various gauges for metalling the roads of the town.

From Prisoners Their Own Warders A Record of the Convict Prison at Singapore in the Straits Settlements Established 1825 by John Frederick Adolphus McNair

He swung off into the darkness, and a minute later Anthony heard his steps upon the metalling of the London road.

From Anthony Lyveden by Dornford Yates

The terrier, he knew, had crossed the road, and there was something about this particular reach of metalling that tempted motorists to pass at the deuce of a pace.

From Anthony Lyveden by Dornford Yates

A glance between these natural balusters turned our strip of metalling into a gallery.

From Jonah and Co. by Dornford Yates