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usually uncountable, plural metallurgies
The science of metals; their extraction from ores, purification and alloying, heat treatment, and working. quotations examples
Fowler was also interested in metallurgy and the use of new materials that could withstand greater stresses, something he expounded on when giving his presidential address to the new Institution of Mechanical Engineers in 1927.
2021 December 29, Stephen Roberts, “Stories and facts behind railway plaques: Evesham (1870)”, in RAIL, number 947, page 59