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  • noun Plural form of metallurgist.

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Examples

  • If any band could be termed metallurgists, it's this Montreal quartet.

    Ottawa Sun 2009

  • If any band could be termed metallurgists, it's this Montreal quartet.

    Ottawa Sun 2009

  • Scientists, engineers and metallurgists for Alcoa Inc. and U.S. Steel Corp. are testing new alloys to develop thinner, stronger, shapeable metals that they hope auto makers will use in the next generation of fuel-efficient cars.

    Metal Firms Seek Weight Loss Robert Guy Matthews 2011

  • In the most complete picture to date of what appears to have led to the Sept. 9. inferno in San Bruno, Calif., the National Transportation Safety Board said that its metallurgists found numerous flaws in the section of steel pipe that blew out.

    Report: California pipeline that exploded had numerous flaws 2011

  • It's knowing that with my skill set in law, investment banking and my knowledge of the resource sector, and hopefully being able to open doors, that I can play a role in a team that includes geologists, engineers, metallurgists, people with long fund-management backgrounds.

    Farr-Jones Takes Winning Mindset to Funds David Winning 2011

  • For instance, we use steel alloys routinely where metallurgists can't explain how the alloys have the properties that they have.

    The Employment Situation, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • Final answers about how the metal opened up in flight aren't expected to be available until metallurgists examine part of the fuselage under microscopes at the board's direction.

    Mystery Still Surrounds Cause of Rupture Aboard Southwest Jet Andy Pasztor 2011

  • As the California shock metallurgists opened Tuesday's loud and fun set at Jiffy Lube Live, a stagehand dropped from the rafters with a noose around his neck.

    In concert: Avenged Sevenfold at Jiffy Lube Live 2010

  • Technology sharing is good -- but technology collaboration, where the resources of Brazilian biologists and Indian software pioneers and Korean metallurgists and American materials scientists are all combined, would go even further to solve the climate crisis.

    Carl Pope: Slouching Towards Copenhagen 2009

  • Rather like the computer chip industry, which only kicked off after the development of ultra-pure silicon, cold fusion might require metallurgists to manufacture palladium that is consistently free of impurities.

    Cold Fusion: The Ghost of Free Energy 2009

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