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Definition: Metallurgist |
MetallurgistNoun1. An engineer trained in the extraction and refining and alloying and fabrication of metals. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "metallurgist" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1870. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Mining | One who is skilled in, or who practices, metallurgy.CF:metallurgical engineer. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Metallurgy is a domain of Materials Science and of Materials Engineering that studies the physical and chemical behavior of metallic elements and their mixtures, which are called alloys.Most metallic elements are best used in the alloyed form, for example, steel, brass, aluminum alloys. However some nearly 100% pure elements like semiconductors owe their properties to the presence of controlled amount of impurities in them. Metals seem to work as structural materials under loading conditions where sudden failures must be avoided. The metals are stronger than most plastics and have more toughness than most ceramics. Unlike Mechanical Engineers, Metallurgists study the microscopic mechanisms that cause a metal or alloy to behave in the way that it does, i.e. the changes that occur on the atomic level that affect the metal's (or alloy's) macroscopic properties.
Metallurgy is applied to electronic materials, as metals such as aluminum and copper are used in power lines, wires and the tiny electrical connections on computer chips. It is applied to welding and soldering, two techniques for joining metals.
Much effort has been placed on understanding one very important alloy system, Iron - Carbon, better known as steel.
Extractive metallurgy is the practice of separating metals, usually in the form of a metal-oxide, from their ore, and refining them into a pure metal. In order to convert a metal-oxide to a metal, the metal oxide must be reduced either chemically or electrolytically.
See also:
- Timeline of materials technology
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Metallurgy."
Synonym: MetallurgistSynonym: metallurgical engineer (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Metallurgist |
| English words defined with "metallurgist": Bessemer ♦ Sir Henry Bessemer. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "metallurgist": metalist. (references) |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Luxembourg | In 1876, English metallurgist Sidney Thomas invented a refining process that led to the development of the steel industry in Luxembourg and the founding of the Arbed company in 1911--now the second-largest steel producer in Europe. (references) |
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| "Metallurgist" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Metallurgist" is used about 19 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 19 | 80,337 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
metallurgist | 37 |
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| Language | Translations for "metallurgist"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | metalurg. (various references) | |
Arabic | العالم بالميتالورجيا, العالم بالمعادن, الخبير بالمعادن. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | металург. (various references) | |
Chinese | 冶金师. (various references) | |
Czech | hutník. (various references) | |
French | métallurgiste (metalworker). (various references) | |
German | Metallurge, metallurg. (various references) | |
Greek | μεταλλουργόσ, μεταλλουργός. (various references) | |
Hebrew | מטלור'יסט. (various references) | |
Hungarian | fémkohász. (various references) | |
Italian | metallurgico (metallurgic). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 冶金学者 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | やき"がくしゃ. (various references) | |
Korean | 야금 자. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | etallurgistmay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | metalurgista. (various references) | |
Romanian | metalurgist. (various references) | |
Russian | металлург (metalworker). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | metalurg, topioničar (smelter). (various references) | |
Spanish | metalúrgico (metallurgical). (various references) | |
Swedish | metallurg. (various references) | |
Thai | ผู้แยกโลหะออกจากแร่. (various references) | |
Turkish | metâlürji uzmanı, maden uzmanı (metallist). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | металург. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | nh luyện kim. (various references) | |
Welsh | metelydd. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "metallurgist": metallurgists. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "metallurgist": hydrometallurgist. (additional references) | |
Words containing "metallurgist": hydrometallurgists. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "metallurgist" (pronounced 'Met"al*lur`gist'): Sacrilegist. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-g-i-l-l-m-r-s-t-t-u" | |
-2 letters: illustrate, multistage. | |
-3 letters: allergist, guerillas, ligatures, literatus, mutilates, remittals, stimulate, tailleurs, ultimates. | |
-4 letters: aglitter, altruism, altruist, galliums, gestural, glariest, glitters, gremials, guerilla, guttlers, lamister, legalism, legalist, ligature, ligulate, literals, lustrate, magister, maltiest, maltster, marliest, marlites, martlets, maturest, metalist, migrates, millages, misalter, mistreat, mullites, multiage, muralist, muriates, mutilate, ragtimes, remittal, simulate, sluttier, smaltite, smuttier. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-g-i-l-l-m-r-s-t-t-u" | |
+1 letter: metallurgists. | |
+5 letters: hydrometallurgist. | |
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