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Answer for the clue "Result of a metallic mixture ", 5 letters:
alloy

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1400, "mix with a baser metal," from Old French aloiier "assemble, join," from Latin alligare "bind to, tie to," compound of ad- "to" (see ad- ) + ligare "to bind" (see ligament ); hence "bind one thing to another." Related: Alloyed ; alloying .

Usage examples of alloy.

The cupellation of large quantities of alloy or of alloys which contain tin, antimony, iron, or any substance which produces a scoria, or corrodes the cupel, must be preceded by a scorification.

With a large number of bullion assays systematically worked and checked a simple plan would be to always use the quantity of lead required by the alloy containing most copper which turns up for assay.

This I afterwards ascertained beyond doubt to be a metalloid alloy whereof the principal ingredient was aluminium, or some substance so closely resembling it as not to be distinguishable from it by simple chemical tests.

Where practicable, metals and alloys are best sampled by melting and granulating.

Should not a magistrate be not merely the best administrator of the law, but the most crafty expounder of the chicanery of his profession, a steel probe to search hearts, a touchstone to try the gold which in each soul is mingled with more or less of alloy?

Most alloys have to be formed at high temperatures because of miscibility problems, among other things.

Aluminium alloys, monocoque construction, far advanced over the flimsy old wooden contraptions that were used in the war.

The panzer emerges into a clearing, where a metal maintenance shack rusts on its slab of concrete, and in that brief moment Cowboy fires a chaff rocket straight up and dives among the alloy trees once more.

Partly for these reasons, and partly because its electric character makes it especially capable of being rendered at will pervious or impervious to the apergic current, I resolved to make the outer and inner walls of an alloy of .

George Anthony was the masked criminal who had hired the Rego mob to steal the alloy powder.

If, in the example just given, the quantity of gold present was really 7 or even 9 milligrams of gold, the resulting alloy would still have been suitable for such partings.

Nylan brought the hammer down on the faintly red alloy, scattering sparklets of oxides.

X-ray fluorescence spectrophotometer specifically designed for alloy analysis.

Fortunately, the two spectrophotometers allow us to assemble a library of photographs of the microscopic appearance of alloys of known composition.

A sudden, startling white-light image showed living, breathing Siamese twins, impossibly transected to expose raw pink-and-gray muscles working side-by-side with shape-memory alloys and piezoelectric actuators, flesher and gleisner anatomies interpenetrating.