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duralumin
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Duralumin \Duralumin\ prop. n. [a trademark.] an aluminum-based alloy which is both light and strong, containing 4 per cent of copper and 0.5 per cent of magnesium and smaller amounts of iron, manganese, and silicon. It hardens with aging at room temperature. [WordNet 1.5 +PJC] ||
Wiktionary
n. an alloy of over 90% aluminium, 4% copper and traces of manganese, magnesium, iron and silicon, widely used in the aircraft industry
Wikipedia
Duralumin (also called duraluminum, duraluminium, duralum, duralium or dural) is the trade name of one of the earliest types of age-hardenable aluminium alloys. Its use as a trade name is obsolete, and today the term is mainly used to describe aluminium–copper alloys, designated as the 2000 series by the International Alloy Designation System (IADS).
Usage examples of "duralumin".
Cylindrical duralumin containers, thirty in all, were lowered from the ship's belly to the beach, seized and carried to the back of the deep cave, stacked so that the code numbers on their lids faced the light.
Probably the discoverers' curiosity would have got the better of them and they'd start prying open the stacked duralumin cylinders including Container-30.
In his plastic suit, with night-goggles and duralumin helmet, each rider looked more like a deep-sea diver than a soldier.
He prodded the Duralumin wrist joint with the chewed shaft of a felt-tip pen.
The ditch, not of even width but nowhere spannable with the small duralumin ladder, had definitely been created by explosive charges—not long ago, and in haste, which was evident from the clay, in places so ragged and overhanging that it could fall at any moment.
While Hosein made out the flight plan and went through the formalities in the Control office, Gujar and I helped the old Sheikh up the duralumin ladder into the cabin of the Tramp, and saw his retinue install him comfortably on the divan bed.