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base metal
Word definitions for base metal in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Metal \Met"al\ (? or ?; 277), n. [F. m['e]tal, L. metallum metal, mine, Gr. ? mine; cf. Gr. ? to search after. Cf. Mettle , Medal .] (Chem.) An elementary substance, as sodium, calcium, or copper, whose oxide or hydroxide has basic rather than acid ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A base metal is a common and inexpensive metal, as opposed to a precious metal such as gold or silver . A long-time goal of alchemists was the transmutation of a base (low grade) metal into a precious metal. In numismatics , coins often derived their value ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Gilded Finish Gilding is a process of overlaying a base metal with a very thin layer of gold. ▪ Gold mineralisation is associated with earlier fluids; antimony and base metal sulphides with later fluids. ▪ Mineralisation within ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context chemistry English) Any metal at the lower end of the electrochemical series that oxidizes readily. 2 (context metallurgy English) The metal to be welded (rather than that used to weld). 3 A common or inexpensive metal 4 # (context chiefly ...
Usage examples of base metal.
However, because of the difficulties of supporting a division in the Wall, and because nobody thought the Posleen would ever be able to breach it after the first year or so, a road had been put back in, on the base metal for 441, most of which had never been removed, and there was now a four-lane highway that led from the wall to the corps supply depot.
The paiza had been handed down through the females of George's family for generations, undoubtedly cherished because it was worthless base metal and could not be sold for food.
Like the alchemists, I, too, was trying to transform a base metal into gold.
Now the wallshield itself-that inconceivably rigid fabrication of pure force which only the detonation of twenty metric tons of duodec had ever been known to rupture-was all that barred from the base metal of Boskonian walls the utterly indescribable fury of the maulers' beams.
Now the wallshield itself-that inconceivably rigid fabrication of pure force which only the detonation of twenty metric tons of duodec had ever been known to rupture-was all that barred from the base metal of Boskonian walls the utterly indescribable fury of the maulers’.