base metal

Example Sentences

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Aluminum remains MS’s preferred base metal owing to production losses in the Middle East.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 9, 2026

You can call cobalt a base metal, or stick it with uranium in special metals.

From Barron's • Dec. 26, 2025

Pairing these metal oxides with a conductive carbon network improves electron movement and prevents the particles from clumping together, which is a frequent issue in conventional base metal catalysts.

From Science Daily • Dec. 11, 2025

The copper miner gained ground along with prices for the base metal.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 6, 2023

We know he was engaged in a lengthy search for the secret of how to turn base metal into gold; indeed, briefly in the 1580s, he thought he had found it.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton