Intermetallic is an English word. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Intermetallic meaning
Of, relating to, acting between, or comprising two or more metals.
Using Intermetallic
- The main meaning on this page is: Of, relating to, acting between, or comprising two or more metals.
- In the example corpus, intermetallic often appears in combinations such as: intermetallic compounds, intermetallic layers, intermetallic phases.
Context around Intermetallic
- Average sentence length in these examples: 21.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 7 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 13 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Intermetallic
- In this selection, "intermetallic" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 21.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, forming, form, tin, compounds, layers and phases stand out and add context to how "intermetallic" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include alloys or intermetallic derivatives and copper tin intermetallic layers the. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "intermetallic" sits close to words such as aanand, abcd and abdurrahman, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with intermetallic
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Can form brittle Cu-Zn intermetallic layers in contact with copper. (11 words)
Intermetallic compounds are alloys with a defined stoichiometry and crystal structure. (11 words)
Copper and nickel tend to form intermetallic layers during normal soldering profiles. (12 words)
This study was not successful, in part because the calculation time required for intermetallic compounds was out of reach in the 1960s, but intermediate goals involving boron bonding were achieved, sufficient to be awarded a Nobel Prize. (37 words)
The compound is an intermetallic component of the A Bmain type. citation citation :As most hybrid cars use nickel-metal hydride batteries, massive quantities of lanthanum are required for the production of hybrid automobiles. (34 words)
Lead-tin solder layers on copper leads can form copper-tin intermetallic layers; the solder alloy is then locally depleted of tin and form a lead-rich layer. (28 words)
Example sentences (13)
As time passes, the atoms of these supersaturated alloys separate within the crystals, forming intermetallic phases that serve to reinforce the crystals internally.
Can form brittle Cu-Zn intermetallic layers in contact with copper.
Copper and nickel tend to form intermetallic layers during normal soldering profiles.
Despite all this progress the nature of intermetallic compounds and alloys largely remained a mystery and their study was often empirical.
Included in solid state chemistry are metals and their alloys or intermetallic derivatives.
Intermetallic compounds are alloys with a defined stoichiometry and crystal structure.
Lead-tin solder layers on copper leads can form copper-tin intermetallic layers; the solder alloy is then locally depleted of tin and form a lead-rich layer.
Non-eutectic compositions on cooling start to first precipitate the non-eutectic phase; dendrites when it is a metal, large crystals when it is an intermetallic compound.
The compound is an intermetallic component of the A Bmain type. citation citation :As most hybrid cars use nickel-metal hydride batteries, massive quantities of lanthanum are required for the production of hybrid automobiles.
The field of applications for electron crystallography ranges from bio molecules like membrane proteins over organic thin films to the complex structures of (nanocrystalline) intermetallic compounds and zeolites.
These intermetallic alloys appear homogeneous in crystal structure, but tend to behave heterogeneous, becoming hard and somewhat brittle.
This study was not successful, in part because the calculation time required for intermetallic compounds was out of reach in the 1960s, but intermediate goals involving boron bonding were achieved, sufficient to be awarded a Nobel Prize.
Tin tends rather easily to form hard, brittle intermetallic phases, which are often undesirable.
Common combinations with intermetallic
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- intermetallic compounds 4×
- intermetallic layers 3×
- intermetallic phases 2×
- an intermetallic 2×