a nickel-based alloy containing about 10 per cent chromium, used in heating elements
Word origin
C20: from chro(mium) + me(ta)l
Examples of 'chromel' in a sentence
chromel
The chromel-alumel thermocouple required for the test was welded into the metal test specimens and inserted into the ceramics.
Stella Crosara Lopes, Valéria Oliveira Pagnano, João Manuel Domingos de Almeida Rollo,Mônica Barbosa Leal, Osvaldo Luiz Bezzon 2009, 'Correlation between metal-ceramic bond strength and coefficient of linear thermalexpansion difference', Journal of Applied Oral Sciencehttp://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1678-77572009000200010. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)