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Metallic , me·tal·lic / məˈtalik/ • adj. of, relating to, or resembling metal or metals: metallic alloys a curious metallic taste. ∎ (of sound) resembling that… Metals , Metals
Metals are rarely encountered in their elemental state in nature. They must first be extracted from the ground as an ore, which is then treate… Beaufort Wind Scale , In 1805, to standardize nautical observations, Sir Francis Beaufort , an Irish hydrographer and member of the British Admiralty, created a scale for… Corrosion , Corrosion is the deterioration a material undergoes as a result of its interaction with its surroundings. Although this definition is applicable to a… Metallurgy , metallurgy (mĕt´əlûr´jē), science and technology of metals and their alloys. Modern metallurgical research is concerned with the preparation of radio… Wind Tunnel , wind tun·nel / wind/ • n. a tunnel-like apparatus for producing an airstream of known velocity past models of aircraft, buildings, etc., in order to…
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