metallurgy

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"Accurately determining the thermodynamic behavior deepens our scientific understanding of statistical mechanics and informs key areas such as metallurgy."

From Science Daily • Mar. 15, 2026

The new metallurgy breakthrough avoids the massive energy and chemicals consumed by traditional smelting and refining methods.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 11, 2026

The seemingly limitless power of the steam engine helped change that view, making fortunes in mining, metallurgy, brewing, and, especially, textiles.

From Barron's • Jan. 13, 2026

Before the war, Pokrovrsk was home to some 69,000 residents, with many of them employed in coal mining, metallurgy and machine-building.

From BBC • Aug. 23, 2024

While Aboriginal Australians and many Native Americans remained hunter-gatherers, most of Eurasia and much of the Americas and sub-Saharan Africa gradually developed agriculture, herding, metallurgy, and complex political organization.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond