METALLIC


Meaning of METALLIC in English

adjective

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a metallic click (= like something made of metal )

She strapped herself in with a metallic click of the belt.

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

hydrogen

What had started out as a quest for metallic hydrogen now became a serious hunt for fusion.

This incredibly dense, hot soup of protons and electrons is called fluid metallic hydrogen .

iron

Mercury thus contains a much greater abundance of denser materials, the strong implication being that it is rich in metallic iron .

The result is a fine-grained rock containing small traces of metallic iron .

Figure 1-7 also shows the temperature at which metallic iron would melt within the Earth.

These meteorites, called chondrites, are composed principally of silicate minerals, usually with some metallic iron and sulfides.

The second byproduct of ilmenite reduction is high-purity metallic iron , which can be directly melted and cast into products.

sound

The chair behind her knees scraped on the floor with a raucous metallic sound , and she winced.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

metallic minerals

a metallic blue jacket

a metallic , female voice

There was a metallic grey VW Golf parked outside cabin fifteen.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Earth has an actively convecting dense metallic core that produces and sustains a strong magnetic field.

I loved the metallic smell of solder as it dripped in small puddles, hardening on the workbench before me.

It had a rusty, metallic flavor, like nails on his tongue.

Something hard and metallic , concealed in the shadows, sliced into his leg.

The eyes of the Scribbled Anthias have a mysterious metallic green lens.

The result is a fine-grained rock containing small traces of metallic iron.

The theoretical upper temperature for this to happen with metallic compounds is about 40K.

This involved heating zinc ore and charcoal with metallic copper in a closed vessel to about 1000°C.

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