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Steel coated with an alloy
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terne
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Terne is an alloy coating that was historically made of lead and tin used to cover steel , in the ratio of 20% tin and 80% lead. Currently, lead has been replaced with the metal zinc and is used in the ratio of 50% tin and 50% zinc. This alloy has a low ...
Usage examples of terne.
On Sunday they had not been out until near the end of the afternoon, to have dinner at a brasserie in the Place des Ternes, a good way from home, as if to move on to strange ground.
The modernization project that had swept up the Avenue Neuilly and was extending the smart side of Paris to the west had by-passed the dingy Quartier des Ternes.
At the second drawing a terne of forty thousand francs obliged me to borrow money.
He had managed to swallow that mortification, since he really did prefer not to have the constant traffic of dragons overflying the harbor, but perhaps he should not have taken issue with K'van over the matter of Weyr support to subdue the rebels and that sharding Denol on Terne Island.