ferroalloy

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noun

Any alloy of iron and another metal, especially one of silicon, manganese, chromium, vanadium, tungsten, titanium and molybdenum; used in the production of specialist steels as they have a lower melting point than the pure metal.

OriginEnglish alloy ← Latin ferrum ← Old Latin *fersom →
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Meanings

nounferroalloy (plural ferroalloys)

plural ferroalloys · alternative ferro-alloy

  1. Any alloy of iron and another metal, especially one of silicon, manganese, chromium, vanadium, tungsten, titanium and molybdenum; used in the production of specialist steels as they have a lower melting point than the pure metal.

Origin

  1. Old Latin*fersom
  2. Latinferrum
  3. Englishferro-
  4. Englishalloy
  5. Englishferroalloy

From ferro- + alloy.

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Translations

Danish jernlegering
  • jernlegeringany alloy of iron
Norwegian Bokmål ferrolegering
  • ferrolegeringany alloy of iron
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APA

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Chicago

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