yellow metal


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yellow metal

n
1. (Metallurgy) a type of brass having about 60 per cent copper and 40 per cent zinc
2. (Elements & Compounds) another name for gold
Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014
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Noun1.yellow metal - a brass that has more zinc and is stronger than alpha brassyellow metal - a brass that has more zinc and is stronger than alpha brass; used in making castings and hot-worked products
brass - an alloy of copper and zinc
high-strength brass, manganese bronze - a brass with from 1-4% manganese to harden it
Admiralty brass, Admiralty Metal, naval brass, Tobin bronze - alpha-beta brass containing tin; resistant to sea water; Admiralty Metal is a trademark
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References in classic literature ?
"From whence came the yellow metal, Busuli?" he asked.
"I should like to go there and see this strange city," said Tarzan, "and get some of their yellow metal from its fierce inhabitants."
Then our warriors came down from their hill, and, after taking many ornaments of yellow metal from the bodies of those they had slain, they marched back out of the valley, nor have any of us ever returned.
One of the parties that searched farther for a location for the tribe when first they settled here came upon a strange people who wore many ornaments of yellow metal. Their spears were tipped with it, as were their arrows, and they cooked in vessels made all of solid metal like my armlet.
Everything had been done to make the iron ship perfect, but no wit of man had managed to devise an efficient coating composition to keep her bottom clean with the smooth cleanness of yellow metal sheeting.
From the left fob he took out a net almost large enough for a fisherman, but contrived to open and shut like a purse, and served him for the same use: we found therein several massy pieces of yellow metal, which, if they be real gold, must be of immense value.
`There I found a seat of some yellow metal that I did not recognize, corroded in places with a kind of pinkish rust and half smothered in soft moss, the arm-rests cast and filed into the resemblance of griffins' heads.
Because men, groping in the Arctic darkness, had found a yellow metal, and because steamship and transportation companies were booming the find, thousands of men were rushing into the Northland.
Not stones that shine, not yellow metal that gleams, these thou leavest to 'white men from the Stars.' Methinks I know thee; methinks I can smell the smell of the blood in thy heart.
There was a low jingle, a glint of yellow metal, a sway of fringed draper- ies, and she stopped as if her heart had failed her.
Summary: Ahmedabad (Gujarat) [India], Aug 30 (ANI): A slowdown in global economy and escalating US-China trade tensions have pushed up the price of yellow metal up nearly 20 per cent so far this year.
This summer, I saw quartz reef inside of the cliffs and noticed yellow metal inclusions.