The Collaborative International Dictionary
Alloy \Al*loy"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Alloyed; p. pr. & vb. n. Alloying.] [F. aloyer, OF. alier, allier, later allayer, fr. L. aligare. See Alloy, n., Ally, v. t., and cf. Allay.]
To reduce the purity of by mixing with a less valuable substance; as, to alloy gold with silver or copper, or silver with copper.
To mix, as metals, so as to form a compound.
To abate, impair, or debase by mixture; to allay; as, to alloy pleasure with misfortunes.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of alloy English)
Usage examples of "alloying".
They are prepared by alloying known weights of gold and lead, so as to get an alloy of known composition, say one per cent.
And we can get the other elements needed by cannibalizing, and an alloying unit aboard could be adapted to manufacture the transistors themselves.
And all cloth grows old and yellow and brittle, so old cloth, duplied, merely meant more old cloth, and alloy steel objects could not be reproduced, but only duplied, without the alloying materials, so there were only soft-iron knives and patched garments.
It was used as an alloying element with copper to make brass, but the ores were mixed before smelting to make brass directly, or zinc ore was mixed with copper before casting and copper was actually used to reduce the zinc!
If the intent is to make an aluminum alloy, the alloying elements are added at this point.
The duplier had not been able to extract from the rock samples the alloying elements the original knife contained in addition to iron, and which a true duplicate would have to contain.
Their use of alloying elements like aluminum and beryllium is incredibly parsimonious.
Oh, there was a good deal of natural alloying, with a lot of eutectic alloys present, alloys with particularly low melting points.