单词 | aluminum industry |
释义 | > as lemmasaluminum industry a. Of or relating to aluminum or its production, as aluminum alloy, aluminum atom, aluminum compound, aluminum industry, aluminum paint, aluminum powder, etc. ΚΠ 1846 J. W. Draper Text-bk. Chem. xxxvi. 161 The general formula..in which m represents any metal belonging to the potassium group, and M any one belonging to the aluminum group. 1868 J. D. Dana Syst. Mineral. (ed. 5) 175 The purest beauxite..is called aluminum ore. 1937 Amer. Home Apr. 74/1 (advt.) Insulating Sheathing..additionally sealed against vapor by a special aluminum compound on one side. 1958 Life 14 Apr. 123/2 (caption) A Van de Graaff generator..made of a metal geography globe coated with aluminum paint, a plastic tube, [etc.]. 1971 Tools & their Uses (U.S. Navy Bureau of Naval Personnel) (1973) i.14 Tin snips will also work on slightly heavier gages of soft metals such as aluminum alloys. 1977 J. March Adv. Org. Chem. (ed. 2) x. 420 The product in this case is easily reduced to a ketone in high yields with aluminum amalgam or by electrolysis. 1997 K. D. Bonin & V. V. Kresin Electric-dipole Polarizabilities of Atoms, Molecules, & Clusters vi. 176 Chromium and aluminum atoms have been used to fabricate nanostructures using this atom-optics technique. 2004 New Yorker 6 Sept. 68/2 The convention business now looks a bit like the old steel and aluminum industries: too many players offering too much of the same stuff. 2006 J. Updike Terrorist v. 283 Spliced yellow wires loop from the blasting caps, enhanced by aluminum powder and pentrite, which are embedded in the bottom of each drum. < as lemmas |
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