Sentence examples for metal rather than from inspiring English sources

When Al2O3 was used as the support, nickel metal rather than nickel phosphides was generated.

A recent innovation is to perch the containers on metal rather than concrete, since concrete can turn the water acidic, encouraging corrosion.

This coffee and sandwich shop vibrates to a soundtrack of vintage heavy metal, rather than Norah Jones or Katie Melua - and its lovingly assembled menu is equally different.

A comparable oral device has been around since 1953 but was made from metal rather than the more comfortable plastic now used.

iLounge also reported that their source told them that the rear casing of the phone would be metal, rather than ceramic, and flat, rather than curved.

It's cheaper to connect fuel cells in a stack using metal rather than ceramics, but metal interconnects lose their structural integrity at higher temperatures.

Another one is called cold spray, which is repairing of metals rather than replacing them.

In this respect joining with metals rather than brittle glass ceramics is considered to have advantages.

Because spasers are based on metals rather than semiconductors, they are much more resistant to ionising radiation.

The fact that its electrical conductivity decreases as the temperature increases places polonium among the metals rather than the metalloids or nonmetals.

Intermetallic compound, any of a class of substances composed of definite proportions of two or more elemental metals, rather than continuously variable proportions (as in solid solutions).