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 company, Valor, is an attempt to commercialize a breakthrough in metallurgy called electrochemical liquid-liquid extraction.

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

This advanced steel, a direct evolution of Iron Age metallurgy, required sophisticated knowledge and precise high-temperature processes.

From BBC • Feb. 26, 2025

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