Inorganic Chemical
alloy Audio
al·loy [ al-oi, uh-loi ]
Subclass of:
Biomedical and Dental Materials; Metals
Etymology:
Latin adligo = to tie to; from ad = to + ligo = to tie
Definitions related to alloys:
  • Mixture of two or more metals or of one or more metals with certain metalloids that are mutually soluble in the molten condition; distinguished as binary, ternary, quaternary, etc., depending on the number of metals in the mixture.
    CRISP Thesaurus
    National Institutes of Health, 2006
  • A mixture of metallic elements or compounds with other metallic or metalloid elements in varying proportions.
    NLM Medical Subject Headings
    U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2021
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