How to Use metallurgy in a Sentence

metallurgy

noun
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  • The Philosopher’s Stone The alchemists’ quest for gold wasn’t just about metallurgy, though.
    — Meg Neal, Popular Mechanics, 19 Oct. 2018
  • The alchemists’ quest for gold wasn’t just about metallurgy, though.
    — Meg Neal, Popular Mechanics, 10 Feb. 2021
  • The basic principles, and the metallurgy, were proved to be fine.
    — J. A. Maxtone Graham, Popular Mechanics, 24 Sep. 2020
  • Advances in metallurgy sparked the demise of matriarchy in the first place, 5,000 years ago, leading to a growth of weaponry and war.
    — Nora Krug, Washington Post, 18 Sep. 2019
  • Knowing what makes a great blade involves a deep dive into the science of metallurgy, McManus said.
    — Marni Jameson | Contributing Writer, NOLA.com, 15 Dec. 2020
  • Knowing what makes a great blade involves a deep dive into the science of metallurgy, said McManus.
    — Marni Jameson, orlandosentinel.com, 18 Dec. 2020
  • After just three days, any trace of the nail is gone; what's left is a solution called a lixiviant—a liquid used in metallurgy to leach pure ore from rock sources.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 8 Nov. 2021
  • That Inca metallurgy left little record in the ice cap could be attributed to the method for refining metals.
    — Sarah Kollmorgen, Discover Magazine, 30 Mar. 2016
  • But the discovery of the copper mask suggests that there is more than one place of origin for advanced metallurgy in South America.
    — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 12 June 2017
  • But the discovery of the copper mask suggests that there is more than one place of origin for advanced metallurgy in South America.
    — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 12 June 2017
  • By World War I, improvements in metallurgy solved the initial weight penalty.
    — Walter J. Boyne and Alex Hollings, Popular Mechanics, 23 May 2021
  • This time Colt metallurgy and machining met the challenge.
    — Mark Yost, WSJ, 14 May 2021
  • The levels of chemicals related to metallurgy in the ice core gradually rose and plateaued over the next few decades, until around 1830.
    — Sarah Kollmorgen, Discover Magazine, 30 Mar. 2016
  • Thomas was named director of metallurgy for the company in 2009.
    — The New York Times, Arkansas Online, 10 Nov. 2021
  • The investigation involved physics, metallurgy, and the crystalline strength of steel at work.
    — Adam Rogers, WIRED, 10 Aug. 2019
  • Boston Metal was founded a decade ago by two MIT professors and an alum with a doctorate in metallurgy.
    — Scott Kirsner, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Aug. 2022
  • As an inventor in electrochemistry and process metallurgy, Fromson held more than 100 U.S. and foreign patents in his field.
    — Kenneth R. Gosselin, courant.com, 28 June 2021
  • Gans grew up in 16th-century Prague, then the center of innovation in mining and metallurgy.
    — Andrew Lawler, Smithsonian, 21 Sep. 2019
  • The bottom end of the engine benefits from a balanced eight-counterweight crank with trick metallurgy to increase the bend-fatigue limit by 25 percent.
    — Barry Winfield, Car and Driver, 21 May 2020
  • Occupied from the third millennium B.C. until it was abandoned in the Iron Age, this early center of metallurgy left behind a baffling amount of things.
    — Nicola Chilton, Travel + Leisure, 4 Dec. 2021
  • Katuruka is the oldest iron-smelting furnace in southern Africa, and was centuries ahead of European metallurgy in its time.
    — Ken Jennings, Condé Nast Traveler, 26 Feb. 2018
  • The new Air weighs a quarter of a pound less than the previous one, comes in new colors, and, thanks to Apple’s metallurgy team, is now made entirely of recycled aluminum, which Brooklyn loved and cheered over for a full 30 seconds.
    — Kaitlyn Tiffany, Vox, 31 Oct. 2018
  • The group also has metallurgy and land-systems divisions.
    — Bloomberg.com, 17 Jan. 2018
  • Specifically, pipe thickness and metallurgy appeared to have been miscalculated, and, after those changes were made, the support structures for the pipes had to be changed.
    — Megan Geuss, Ars Technica, 26 June 2017
  • Cobra partnered with a metallurgy company called Parmatech, which has been working with HP to hone its 3D-printing process.
    — Popular Science, 1 Dec. 2020
  • Stainless Steel The composition of knives parallels the history of metallurgy: copper, bronze, iron, steel.
    — Francine Maroukian, Popular Mechanics, 24 Oct. 2018
  • By the time the Transylvanian settlement emerged, people in the region had developed copper and gold metallurgy.
    — Livia Gershon, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Sep. 2021
  • This carbon monoxide can then be used in many different industries, such as metallurgy and petrochemistry.
    — Marianne Lehnis, Forbes, 11 Jan. 2023
  • Growing up in a town outside Moscow, where his father worked as a professor of metallurgy, Sorokin had an early taste of literary notoriety.
    — New York Times, 16 Apr. 2022
  • Advancements in metallurgy have given carmakers specific blends of high-strength steel that are easy to stamp and weld, resistant to corrosion, fire, or impact, and weigh less while retaining their strength.
    — Blake Z. Rong, Popular Mechanics, 4 Dec. 2018

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