Crossword clues for terne
terne
- ___ metal (plating alloy)
- Lead and tin alloy
- Lead/tin alloy
- Alloy of tin and lead
- ___ metal (tin-lead alloy)
- Coat with an alloy of tin and lead
- Coat with a tin-lead alloy
- Coat with a metal alloy
- Coat with an alloy of lead and tin
- Roofing material
- Alloy-coated steel
- Kind of steel plate
- Copper-alloy coating
- Alloy of lead and tin used to coat auto gas tanks
- Coated steel sheet
- Tin-lead alloy
Wiktionary
n. An alloy coating made of lead and tin (or, more recently, zinc and tin) and used to cover steel.
Wikipedia
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 melting point of approximately 360 degrees Fahrenheit.
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.