white metal
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
white metal
▶noun a white or silvery alloy, especially a tin-based alloy used for the surfaces of bearings.
'white metal' also found in these Oxford entries:
cadmium
- cerium
- chromium
- dysprosium
- erbium
- europium
- gadolinium
- gallium
- holmium
- indium
- iridium
- lutetium
- magnesium
- neodymium
- nickel
- osmium
- palladium
- platinum
- praseodymium
- rhenium
- rhodium
- ruthenium
- samarium
- scandium
- silver
- strontium
- terbium
- thallium
- thulium
- tin
- ytterbium
- yttrium
- zinc
