metallurgicaladj.
/ˌmɛtəˈləːdʒᵻkl/, U.S. /ˌmɛdlˈərdʒək(ə)l/ Relating to the working of metals; of, relating to, or concerned with metallurgy.
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society > occupation and work > industry > working with specific materials > working with metal > [adjective]
metallic1649
metallurgic1747
metallurgical1796
1796 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 86 313 This neutral salt [sc. sulphate of ammoniac]..has been very little examined; neither has it been applied to any useful purpose, although the inventor much recommended it in metallurgical operations.
1812 H. Davy Elements Chem. Philos. 20 A metallurgical school had before this time been founded in Germany.
1827 M. Faraday Chem. Manip. i. 11 Metallurgical processes.
1869 W. E. Gladstone Juventus Mundi xv. §4. 530 I have high metallurgical authority for stating, that the sheathing of Chalcos on walls..must..have been some material other than bronze.
1907 Outlook 23 Mar. 378/1 Tantalum..is so hard and brittle that no ordinary metallurgical process was able to turn it into wire.
1950 Sci. News 15 138 Metallurgical engineering has grown from arts among the oldest known to man, but metallurgical science is still in its infancy.
1992 A. Kurzweil Case of Curiosities xiii. 92 As a final exam of metallurgical competence, the Abbé tested Claude's skill in the tedious art of lamination.
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metallurgical coal n. now rare in technical use high quality coal used to produce coke for metallurgical purposes; coking coal.
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1904 Publ. Amer. Econ. Assoc. 5 187 It has been claimed that the price reduction of metallurgical coal was retarded by the iron interests..in order to prevent rival iron manufacturers from getting cheaper coal.
1953 World Politics 6 81 A complete lack of metallurgical coal should prevent the planning authorities from transforming Hungary into a country of iron and steel but..economic calculations seem to lose their validity in the Russian orbit.
1971 N.Y. Times 9 Sept. 66/4 The Eastern Associated Coal Corporation..had signed a $50-million contract with Brazilian National Steel Company to deliver over 5-million tons of metallurgical coal over the next 11 years.
1992 Equinox Jan. 57/1 A crew is loading 56,000 tonnes of metallurgical coal onto the Brazilian freighter Docebeta.
metallurgical coke n. a hard dense coke produced by high temperature carbonization of coal and used as a fuel in the iron and steel industries, esp. in blast furnaces.
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1895 J. Fulton Coke vi. 234 In the further consideration of these valuable properties in metallurgical coke, it may be helpful to the manufacturer to consider these four essentials.
1992 Times of India 30 July 15/3 Steel Authority of India Limited..intends to import about 1500,000..metric tons of Freshly Mined Prime Washed/Unwashed Coking Coal..for the production of Metallurgical Coke.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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