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base metal

noun as in rare-earth element

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Based on the rest of the notebook’s contents, they believed the ciphertext contained a recipe for the fabled Philosophers’ Stone—an elixir that supposedly prolongs the owner’s life and grants the ability to produce gold from base metals.

He 'sophisticated' it, as the parliamentary documents call it—that is, he used base metal instead of bullion.

A pair of scales for weighing ore and buttons of base metal.

Base metal though it were, it seemed pure gold to his listeners.

"But all these watches are of base metal, and I want one of good gold and handsome finish," observed my grandmother.

The gold in their nature is now so mixed with base metal that in any great trial the coin would sooner break than bend.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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