metal-like
- a word derived from metal.
Example Sentences
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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.
Albertus Magnus was the first to state that arsenic contained a metal-like substance, although later writers considered it to be a bastard or semi-metal, and frequently called it arsenicum rex.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 6 "Armour Plates" to "Arundel, Earls of" by Various
