What is an example of an alloy

What is an example of an alloy?

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Alloys are highly engineered to offer a superior combination of heat resistance, high temperature corrosion resistance, toughness and strength for the most demanding applications. Example of Heat Resistant Alloys Incoloy 800 Inconel 600 Exa…

Is it possible to make an alloy using metallic hydrogen + molten …?

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I think it could possibly work but ask your science teacher

Can anyone give me some examples of smart alloys and y they r so??

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Nickel-titanium alloys, called “Nitinol” are the most widly known smart alloys. Smart Alloys are metals that “remember” their original shapes and are better know as “shape memory alloys.” One product made for s…

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What is an alloy? what is an example of alloy? help?

Q: What makes this alloy so useful as compared to other metals?

A: An alloy is an amalgam of two or more elements. Bronze is an alloy composed of copper and tin. The benefit of an alloy is that it produces a material that is similar to the composing elements but also has unique characteristics that neither element has on its own or only has in small degree.Steel is also an alloy typically composed of iron and/or lead and/or a number of other elements depending on the purpose.

What is an alloy? Give three examples of alloys.?

Q: does anyone knows the answerr??plz help me:(

A: no one has mentioned this but an alloy is a SOLUTION of two or more metals, it may be hard to understand since we refer to solutions as liquids but lets say we melt down zinc and copper and mix them properly it will on cooling for an alloy.some examples are given by others so give them credit for itlike magnelium – as the name suggests made of magnesium and aluminuim- used for making balances.brass / bronze copper and tin/zinc used in making statues etc

at microscopic level, what is an alloy?

Q: Can anyone explain at microscopic level, what an alloy is?? I understand that it is a mixture of 2 or more metals, or metal and non metal…but i need to know about the microscopic level.Is an example of an alloy brass?? ie copper and zinc?Thanks all :)Thanks, we will soon find out when others answer :)Thanks everyone-i will definately be able to understand now with those answers 🙂

A: Yes, brass is an example of an alloy. Another common one is steel, which is an alloy of iron and carbon (with a few other things as well, depending on the type of steel).To understand alloys at a microscopic level, there are actually TWO levels at which you must understand metals in general, and then expanding the idea to understand alloys as opposed to pure metals isn’t that much of a stretch.First, at an atomic level. Metal isn’t made of molecules in the same sense that many other things are (ie, one oxygen atom and two hydrogen atoms sharing electrons just with each other to become a water molecule). Atoms of a metallic element CAN form covalent bonds and become a molecule (two iron atoms and three oxygen to make rust, for example), but any time you see a solid piece of metal, its atoms aren’t grouped up into molecules. Instead, the atoms all loosely share the electrons with all the other atoms around them in what my professors sometimes called an “electron soup”. This loose sharing of electrons that allows electrons to move anywhere in the entire piece of metal is why most metals conduct electricity very well.Next, at the “grain” level. The atoms of a metal (pure or alloyed) will fall into some kind of 3D arrangement depending on the metal, what its alloyed with, how its been tempered, etc. This arrangement is called the metal’s “lattice structure”. The lattice structure is usually some sort of repeated pattern, but instead of it being repeated perfectly through the whole piece of metal, there are crystals or grains in the metal (still microscopic) in which the pattern is repeated correctly, bumping up against each other, and the pattern doesn’t repeat correctly across the boundary from one grain to the other. Sorry, this is a bit easier to draw than describe verbally…. The physical properties of the metal are determined by the lattice structure of the atoms and by the grain structure of the metal.When you alloy a metal, you’re mixing in some other element into the lattice structure (3D pattern) of the metal. There will be atoms of the other element spread more or less evenly throughout the piece of metal in between the atoms of the “main” metal. If you’re using a non metal, like adding carbon to iron to make steel, you have to add a small enough amount of it that you don’t interfere with the “electron soup” of shared electrons between the metal atoms. If you’re mixing two or more metals, you can use whatever proportions you want. Regardless of whether you add a non metal or another metal, you will change the lattice structure that the atoms fall into. This will affect the size and types of grains the atoms can form, which will change the physical properties of the piece of metal.