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单词 metallurgy
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metallurgyn.

Brit. /mᵻˈtalədʒi/, /ˈmɛtlˌəːdʒi/, U.S. /ˈmɛdlˌərdʒi/
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin metallurgia.
Etymology: < post-classical Latin metallurgia (1593, in alchemical use) < Byzantine Greek μεταλλουργία mining (in Eustathius) < ancient Greek μέταλλον metal n. + -ουργία -urgy comb. form, after Hellenistic Greek μεταλλουργός miner. Compare French métallurgie (1666; earlier in sense ‘research into minerals in the earth’ (Cotgrave, 1611)).Johnson (1755) and Richardson (a1832) indicate a pronunciation with the stress on the second syllable, while various editions of Walker, starting from 1775, mark stress on the first syllable. Webster (1828) shows the stress as being on the first syllable, and this appears always to have been the dominant pronunciation in U.S. usage; the same stress is given by Ogilvie (1850), and N.E.D. (1906) gives the pronunciation as (me·tălɒ̄ɹdʒi) /ˈmɛtəlɜːdʒɪ/. Both stress-patterns are well represented in British dictionaries from the second half of the 19th cent. onwards, although many late 20th-cent. British sources agree in marking the pronunciation with stress on the second syllable as the more common. Documentation for the stress pattern of metallurgist is similar.
The art of working metals, comprising the separation of them from other substances, smelting, and refining; spec. the process of extracting metals from their ores. In later use also: the scientific study of the structure, properties, and behaviour of metals.
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1665 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 1 112 Of Metallurgy, and the way how that unctuous body, out of which Mettals are produced, is elaborated by Nature.
1704 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum I Metallurgy, is the Working or Operation upon Metals, in order to render them most fine, hard, bright, beautiful, serviceable or useful to Mankind.
1785 T. Warton in J. Milton Poems (new ed.) 188 (note) Drayton [in Poly-Olbion (1622) xxvi] personifies the Peak in Derbyshire, which he makes a witch skilful in metallurgy.
1797 Encycl. Brit. XI. 422/1 With others, therefore, we have chosen to restrain Metallurgy to those operations required to separate metals from their ores for the uses of life.
1839 T. Carlyle Chartism viii. 72 He had learned metallurgy, stithy-work in general.
1868 H. Bauerman (title) A treatise on the metallurgy of iron.
1914 W. Rosenhain Introd. Study Physical Metall. i. 1 The scope of Physical Metallurgy..brings it well over the border-land of several sister-sciences—such as chemistry.., physics.., and that branch of knowledge generally known as ‘strength of materials’.
1948 R. H. Harrington Mod. Metall. Alloys p. ix The House of Metallurgy has, today, many rooms filled with stacks of measured data concerning heat treatments, physical properties, micro~structures, and crystal lattice measurements.
1967 A. H. Cottrell Introd. Metall. i. 1 Metallurgy is now a disciplined applied science based on a clear understanding of the structures and properties of metals and alloys.
1991 Sci. Amer. July 63/1 As early as 500 b.c., copper metallurgy was established on the northern Peruvian coast by the Cupisnique peoples.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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