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metal-like

  • a word derived from metal.
    metal
    noun
    any of a class of elementary substances, as gold, silver, or copper, all of which are crystalline when solid and many of which are characterized by opacity, ductility, conductivity, and a unique luster when freshly fractured.

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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

Sometimes sulphur and arsenic will coat the tube with a metal-like appearance, which is deceptive.

From A System of Instruction in the Practical Use of the Blowpipe Being A Graduated Course Of Analysis For The Use Of Students And All Those Engaged In The Examination Of Metallic Combinations by Anonymous

It is described by her as a white, hard, metal-like solid, which reacts with water at the ordinary temperature, as barium does.

From The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry by M. M. Pattison Muir