base metal

How To Use base metal In A Sentence

• Base metals such as nickel and copper are facing production deficits (this means that there is more demand than supply).
• Citi estimates that should a deal eventuate, potash would account for around 10% of BHP's annual earnings, making a larger contribution than aluminium and thermal coal, but still well behind the nearly 80% of earnings generated across its carbon steel, petroleum and base metal divisions. BHP Bid For Potash Makes Sense, Analysts Say
• He explained that Ongopolo mines and processes base metal, mainly copper, but also associated precious metals such as gold and silver.
• The elixir is the Philosopher's Stone, the object which will transmute base metals into silver and gold, but also has the power of restoring health, curing all diseases.
• When using the laser beam for welding the electromagnetic radiation impinges on the surface of the base metal with such a concentration of energy that the temperature of the surface is melted and volatilized.
• Medieval alchemists attempted to transmute base metals into gold.
• These are a club who do not need base metal turning into gold. Times, Sunday Times
• A thin covering of pure silver is applied to a base metal, often copper or nickel, by means of electrolysis.
• Base metals such as aluminium, nickel and zinc have slumped by up to 49%. Times, Sunday Times
• A longtime goal of the alchemists was the transmutation of base metals into precious metals.