yellow metal

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noun

a type of brass having about 60 per cent copper and 40 per cent zinc

another name for gold

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Likewise, gold producers use such contracts to create a predictable revenue stream even as the price of the yellow metal bounces up and down.
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The taste of metal cutlery after years of plastic can also taste funny.
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Abraham, a yellow cab driver and student, feels that blacks are targeted unfairly by the police.
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Some of the items Indonesian military aircraft saw were long yellow tubes.
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In previous decades, hip-hop was something typically preached against, much like rock & roll and heavy metal before it.
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With the first set I did, the colors of the couch determined that the rest of it would be blue and yellow and white.
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The pink flowers are the largest while those of a yellow color are the smallest.
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The flowers grow in clusters from the extremities of the stalk; they are yellow externally and of a delicate red within.
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In the metal of the tenor several coins are visible, one being a Spanish dollar of 1742.
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He was cast down to think that he might have spared himself the trouble of donning his beautiful yellow doublet from Paris.
St. Martin's Summer|Rafael Sabatini
The metal is then removed, and washed successively with very dilute sodium hydroxid solution, alcohol, and ether.
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