Sentence examples for metals rather than from inspiring English sources

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).

For a small (but vocal) group in the US, Bitcoin represents the next best alternative to the gold standard, the 19th-century conception that money ought to be backed by precious metals rather than government printing presses and promises.

The 6 is the first car in America to capture energy in a fast-charging capacitor with no rare-earth metals, rather than a slower, bulkier and harder-to-recycle battery.

One of the messages from the Gaia Foundation report is that we need to find ways of reusing minerals and metals, rather than digging for more.. "These materials do not biodegrade, so we need to design our electronics to last, and design them so we can upgrade them," says Hosken.

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

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

For example, many local builders now use windows framed in plastic or metal rather than the traditional wooden ones, and concrete rather than red brick and stone.

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.

Rather than welded, these two pieces are screwed together, which produces a visually light effect and reveals that the frame is solid metal, rather than plated.

Sealing up a wound without sutures or gluing together metal (rather than using rivets) could have great advantages, to take just two examples.