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yellow metal

noun

  1. a type of brass having about 60 per cent copper and 40 per cent zinc
  2. See gold
    another name for gold


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Example Sentences

Likewise, gold producers use such contracts to create a predictable revenue stream even as the price of the yellow metal bounces up and down.

From Fortune

Coffee Jack shovelled mechanically, as if all this fuss about the yellow metal were quite beyond his appreciation.

A goodly mass of yellow metal shone in the bottom of the pan, which, when weighed, was found to be worth about sixty dollars.

Uncle Will hastened to the spot and saw at a glance that this knob was an almost solid mass of yellow metal.

No country has produced more of this precious yellow metal that men work and fight and die for.

Basil Valentine recognized the presence of this peculiar yellow metal and studied some of its qualities.

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