metallurgy

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These two terms are most frequently used in connection with the metals Extraction of metals,--metallurgy.~ The process of extracting a metal from its ores is called the metallurgy of the metal.

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  1. noun The science that deals with procedures used in extracting metals from their ores, purifying and alloying metals, and creating useful objects from metals.
  2. noun The study of metals and their properties in bulk and at the atomic level.

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  • This old Drake and his son have claimed an airless rock, Freedonia, and set up what they call a metallurgy lab. —  Astounding, January 1943
  • Granted, sedentary centers did appear—for mining, metallurgy, and other industry; for trade and religion; for defense in case the group was defeated by another in aerial battle. —  "You can't leave now," Daniel Holm told his son
  • It was even improbable that the mind of one man would accumulate enough variety of specialized knowledge to use all this apparatus Moving over to a section devoted to metallurgy, which is my field, I was amazed to note the advanced nature of the equipment, and also of the experiments that had obviously been performed there. —  171 - The Monkey Suit
  • If not Roanoke, Curtis would like to attend the Colorado School of Mines to pursue a degree in metallurgy, the study of the physical and chemical behavior of metallic elements. —  newsleader.com -
  • Having expressed satisfaction with the wish of the guests to take part in implementation of this large project, Saparmurat Niyazov said the construction of the first plant of the national non-ferrous metallurgy is planed in Mary province which has all necessary conditions and resources for that. —  Новости
 

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  1. New Latin metallūrgia, from Greek metallourgos, miner, worker in metals : metallon, a mine, metal + -ourgos, -worker (from ergon, work; see werg- in Indo-European roots).

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  1. = French métallurgie = Spanish metalurgía= Portuguese Italian metallurgia, from New Latin metallurgia, from Greek μεταλλουργός, working metals, a miner, from μέταλλον, a mine (metal), + ε̆ργον, work.
 

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