The electrical conductivity of a metal is often very much decreased by alloying with it even small quantities of another metal.
It is largely employed inalloying both gold and silver for the manufacture of jewellery and other articles.
They must have imported, and that from a distance, either the manufactured bronze, or the tin with which to manufacture it themselves by alloying copper.
Nevertheless gold and silver were on a par as means of exchange, and the fraudulent alloying of gold was treated in law, like the issuing of spurious silver money, as a monetary offence.
The first step towards tinning, is to free the metallic surface from every particle of oxide or impurity, for any such would inevitably prevent the iron from alloying with the tin.
The question of the origin of this bronze, whether from ores containing copper and tin or by alloying the two metals, is one of wide difference of opinion, and we further discuss the question in note 53, p.
Recently Vannucci Biringuccio, of Sienna, a wise man experienced in many matters, wrote in vernacular Italian on the subject of the melting, separating, andalloying of metals.
The Cowles process heats to incandescence by the electric current a mixture of alumina, carbon and copper, the reduced aluminum alloyingwith the copper.
Although aluminium is popularly supposed to be non-oxidisable, really the surface is covered with a very thin film of oxide, which prevents solder from alloying with the metal.
Its critical temperatures will be located at slightly different heats than for a steel which has a different proportion of alloying elements.
Note also that the lower critical is constant in plain carbon steels containing no alloying elements.
During the white-slag period the followingalloying additions were made: 500 lb.
Each specification is represented by a number of 4 digits, the first figure indicating the class, the second figure the approximate percentage of predominant alloying element, and the last two the average carbon content in points.
Pure gold is too soft for ordinary use, and is hardened by alloying with silver and copper, the latter giving a characteristic reddish tinge.
Reserves of steel-alloying minerals are reported to be available, particularly manganese, chromium, and molybdenum.
Copper was greatly in use among the ancient Egyptians and by alloying it with tin produced bronze.
It was in this field of alloying that young Bessemer took his next step as an inventor, foreshadowing the tremendous feat he was in due time to accomplish.
Alloying has of late years conferred other gifts upon industry, of which one example may be cited from among many of equal importance.
At first the lightness and weakness of aluminium were much against it; these, as we have seen, were soon overcome by alloying the metal with copper or nickel.
He finds materials much more under command than a century ago could have been imagined, as the glass manufacture, the alloying industry, the making of artificial dyes, abundantly prove.
So likewise in the drawing of wire, the alloying of lead with other metals for anti-friction bearings, and so on.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "alloying" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
