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Although this "metal-like" behavior only appears under extreme magnetic conditions, the finding raises new questions about how materials behave at the quantum level.

From Science Daily • Nov. 9, 2025

The sisters started to dig and thought it could be a bighorn sheep skull, but then they saw a human jaw with teeth and what looked like a tooth that had a metal-like filling.

From Los Angeles Times • May 11, 2022

Suchitra Sebastian, for example, led work with Lonzarich a few years ago on samarium hexaboride, an insulator that exhibits metal-like behaviour when exposed to strong magnetic fields6.

From Nature • Sep. 26, 2017

This consisted of a large drawing-room and two ample bedchambers, with window-balconies and a private veranda in the rear, looking off toward the green of the pines and the metal-like luster of the copper beeches.

From The Place of Honeymoons by Keller, Arthur Ignatius

“Winter’s coming, sir,” replied the Norseman, as he glanced round him at the dark, clear, metal-like ice which spread from shore to shore, and looked strong enough to bear.

From Steve Young by Fenn, George Manville