metallurgy
noun
the technique or science of working or heating metals so as to give them certain desired shapes or properties.
metallurgist
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a word derived from
metallurgy.
Example Sentences
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For two years, highly trained metallurgist Rong Yuan worried she was going crazy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026
“This could be one of the steps to reach that goal,” says Chenna Rao Borra, a metallurgist at the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur who was not involved in the research.
From Science Magazine ● Jan. 24, 2024
Fashion empress Coco Chanel called him “the metallurgist of fashion” for his groundbreaking minidresses of aluminum and other materials and clunky jewelry made of rhodoid, a type of plastic.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 3, 2023
“It was very impressive,” said Pierrot Kitobo Sambisaya, who worked as a metallurgist at the mine for a decade.
From New York Times ● Nov. 21, 2021
“Chief metallurgist to King Charles the Fifth of Spain?”
From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline
