metallurgy
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
metallurgy /mɪˈtalədʒi, ˈmɛt(ə)ˌləːdʒi/
▶noun the branch of science concerned with the properties, production, and purification of metals.
– derivatives
metallurgic /ˌmɛtəˈləːdʒɪk/ adjective,
metallurgical adjective,
metallurgically adverb,
metallurgist noun.
metallurgic /ˌmɛtəˈləːdʒɪk/ adjective,
metallurgical adjective,
metallurgically adverb,
metallurgist noun.
– origin C18: from Gk metallon ‘metal’ + -ourgia ‘working’.
'metallurgy' also found in these Oxford entries:
acid
- age hardening
- alloy
- aluminium bronze
- amalgam
- anneal
- assay
- austenite
- autogenous
- babbitt metal
- base
- base metal
- basic
- basic oxygen process
- bell metal
- Bessemer process
- billet
- billon
- bimetallic
- blast furnace
- bloom
- bloomery
- bluing
- brass
- braze
- brazier
- Britannia metal
- Britannia silver
- bronze
- bullion
- carbon steel
- carburize
- case-harden
- cast
- cast iron
- cementation
- cementite
- cermet
- chill
- chill-cast
- chromoly
- cold-rolled
- cold-short
- constantan
- converter
- coppersmith
- crucible
- crystallite
- cupel
- cupola
