Sentence examples for alloy from inspiring English sources

The first climbers used uncomfortable hammocks but portaledges – folding alloy frames with nylon floors that are clipped to the wall – allow a flysheet to be pitched against bad weather and a comfortable platform for sleeping and hanging out.

In the unlikely event that a modern-day footballer would ride a bike to work, you'd imagine it would have its own stereo system, jacuzzi and alloy spokey dokeys.

With stronger, lighter fan blades, made from Hyfil instead of aluminium alloy or titanium, in a fan-jet's first compressor stage, Rolls-Royce's latest aircraft engine at the time, the RB211, would have had a significant weight-saving advantage and thus better fuel economy over rivals from General Electric and Pratt & Whitney.

He and his colleagues have discovered that the conditions change if a photovoltaic cell is placed a few hundred nanometres (billionths of a metre) from a hot surface made of silicon carbide alloy.

To do this, Swatch built a minimalist movement out of ARCAP, an alloy of copper, nickel and zinc that is anti-magnetic magnets anti-magnetic magnetsare in mechanical watchenemy

During that time, fine crystals of the alloying materials, such as magnesium-silicon and magnesium-zinc, precipitate from the "solid solution" that forms the alloy and cluster together.

Engineers in Rolls-Royce's additive-manufacturing division, led by Neil Mantle, have been making experimental bearing housings for the Trent using a version of 3D printing that employs a beam of electrons to melt layers of powdered alloy.

An alloy of iron, aluminium and carbon (steel's other essential ingredient) is too brittle to be useful.

Molybdenum-germanium alloy is a superconductor, so the two researchers hoped that nanotubes coated with it would also be superconductors.

First, the wires have to be cooled even more than a reasonable-sized chunk of the alloy must be before they start superconducting.

The production process, which works continuously rather than in batches, is based on research it has carried out with the Department of Energy's laboratories.The process starts with a nickel alloy strip, one centimetre wide and a few tens of microns (millionths of a metre) thick, which is coated with a buffer layer using thin-film deposition techniques borrowed from the semiconductor industry.