Alloy

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Alloy
... 1. (vt) Any combination or compound of metals fused together; a mixture of metals;
for example, brass, which is an alloy of copper and zinc. ...
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Brass (168 Occurrences)
... Easton's Bible Dictionary Which is an alloy of copper and zinc, was not
known till the thirteenth century. What is designated by ...
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Brazen (42 Occurrences)
... At the present time the term brass is applied to an alloy of copper and
zinc or of copper, zinc and tin. The word translated "brass ...
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Copper (55 Occurrences)
... Neither describes the actual alloy according to present definitions so well as the
word "bronze." Copper was one of the earliest metals to be known and ...
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Assay (3 Occurrences)
... 5. (n.) The act or process of ascertaining the proportion of a particular metal
in an ore or alloy; especially, the determination of the proportion of gold or ...
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Tin (6 Occurrences)
... In Isaiah 1:25 the word so rendered is generally understood of lead, the
alloy with which the silver had become mixed (ver. 22). ...
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Allay
... 4. (n.) Alleviation; abatement; check. 5. (n.) Alloy. 6. (vt) To mix (metals);
to mix with a baser metal; to alloy; to deteriorate. Int. ...
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Steel (7 Occurrences)
... used, and is also rendered in the Revised Version "brass." But more correctly it
is copper (qv), as brass in the ordinary sense of the word (an alloy of copper ...
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Allows (7 Occurrences)

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Lead (192 Occurrences)
... Symbol Pb (L. Plumbum). It is chiefly obtained from the mineral galena, lead
sulphide. 2. (n.) An article made of lead or an alloy of lead. ...
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Greek

5474. chalkolibanon -- chalcolibanus (fine copper, bronze or brass ...
... Neuter of a compound of chalkos and libanos (in the implied mean of whiteness or
brilliancy); burnished copper, an alloy of copper (or gold) and silver having ...
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International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

ALLOY

a-loi' (bedhil): In Isaiah 1:25 the Revised Version, margin; translated "tin" in the text. Elsewhere in both versions bedhil is translated TIN (which see).

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (v. t.) Any combination or compound of metals fused together; a mixture of metals; for example, brass, which is an alloy of copper and zinc. But when mercury is one of the metals, the compound is called an amalgam.

2. (n.) The quality, or comparative purity, of gold or silver; fineness.

3. (n.) A baser metal mixed with a finer.

4. (v. t.) Admixture of anything which lessens the value or detracts from; as, no happiness is without alloy.

5. (v. t.) To reduce the purity of by mixing with a less valuable substance; as, to alloy gold with silver or copper, or silver with copper.

6. (v. t.) To mix, as metals, so as to form a compound.

7. (v. t.) To abate, impair, or debase by mixture; to allay; as, to alloy pleasure with misfortunes.

8. (v. t.) To form a metallic compound.

Strong's Hebrew

913. bedil -- alloy, tin, dross
... << 912, 913. bedil. 914 >>. alloy, tin, dross. Transliteration: bedil Phonetic
Spelling: (bed-eel') Short Definition: tin. Word Origin ...
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