metallurgical
Americanadjective
Explanation
No, this is not a new kind of allergy. Metallurgical means having to do with the branch of science that deals with metals. Two engineers might have nothing to do with each other if one was a chemical engineer and the other was a metallurgical engineer. The word metallurgy derives from the Greek metallon "metal" and -ourgia "work"––but you can think of it as a metal orgy minus the hair bands.
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Example Sentences
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Fellow coal stocks Core Natural Resources, Alpha Metallurgical Resources, and Warrior Met Coal have also scored impressive runs since the beginning of the Middle East conflict.
From Barron's • Mar. 30, 2026
Mr. Garner was president of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical & Petroleum Engineers in 2024.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 8, 2026
Meanwhile, their colleagues at the University of Chicago’s Metallurgical Laboratory mounted a final, ultimately unsuccessful effort to prevent its use.
From Salon • Jul. 22, 2025
South32, the world's biggest producer of manganese, is facing operational headwinds at its Illawarra Metallurgical Coal project after the miner undertook an extended planned longwall move at the Dendrobium mine.
From Reuters • Oct. 23, 2023
This time Neylan’s target was Melvin Calvin, a future Nobel laureate who had worked at the Metallurgical Lab in Chicago and then moved to Berkeley to research peacetime applications of medical radioisotopes with John Lawrence.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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