Synonyms for base metal


Grammar : Noun


Définition of base metal

  • As in rare-earth element : noun group of chemical elements
Example sentences :
  • Her talisman was of base metal, the one cheap thing she wore, yet real.
  • Extract from : « The Bright Messenger » by Algernon Blackwood
  • If the quartz be clean, and the gold unmixed with base metal, the difficulty is small.
  • Extract from : « Getting Gold » by J. C. F. Johnson
  • A pair of scales for weighing ore and buttons of base metal.
  • Extract from : « The A B C of Mining » by Charles A. Bramble
  • All this cry about base metal is "a dodge" to frighten the timid.
  • Extract from : « Crusoe's Island: A Ramble in the Footsteps of Alexander Selkirk » by John Ross Browne
  • A franc is most likely too hard; it has base metal to alloy it.
  • Extract from : « Miss Cayley's Adventures » by Grant Allen
  • He knows what is bad, and with him base metal is never offered us for gold.
  • Extract from : « Arts and Crafts Essays » by Various
  • Base metal though it were, it seemed pure gold to his listeners.
  • Extract from : « The Red Mouse » by William Hamilton Osborne
  • It is base metal from the devil's mint, and is worthless in God's sight.
  • Extract from : « Practical Religion » by John Charles Ryle
  • You ring a choice few of these on the counter and prove them base metal.
  • Extract from : « Adventures in Criticism » by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
  • There was alloy, base metal of course, even in the greatest of the three.
  • Extract from : « 1492 » by Mary Johnston

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