alloyed

[ UK /ˈælɔ‍ɪd/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. (used of metals) debased by mixture with an inferior element
  2. (used of metals) blended to obtain a desired property
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How To Use alloyed In A Sentence

  • Iron alloyed with carbon is steel and this steel can be alloyed with a variety of ferro alloys to modify its properties.
  • It is common to weld some of the lower alloyed materials with matching filler metals.
  • I think he has a Napoleonic concept of himself and his company, an arrogance that derives from power and unalloyed success, with no leavening hard experience, no reverses.
  • I should also say that Bush's "alloyed" nature doesn't annoy me very much at all. Archive 2008-09-01
  • Steels microalloyed with both niobium and vanadium provide higher yield strength in the conventionally hot-rolled condition than that achievable with either element alone.
  • Its resident priests and ordinands are surely not exemplars of unalloyed virtue; indeed, they all have reason for committing the murders.
  • Iron alloyed with carbon is steel and this steel can be alloyed with a variety of ferro alloys to modify its properties.
  • By the time environmentalism became a political force in the 1970s, dams were no longer considered an unalloyed public good.
  • Copper alloys show excellent hot and cold ductility, although usually not to the same degree as the unalloyed parent metal.
  • NAFTA's authors had assumed that eliminating restrictions on the movement of capital and goods would, by dint of the market's magic, lead to unalloyed prosperity.
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