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Brass is an alloy of zinc and copper.alloy = mixture of metals
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The mechanic explained that this wheel was made from a lightweight alloy, perfect for racing.
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Of course, I'd taken the precaution of reinforcing my apartment's walls, floor, and ceiling, with a titanium alloy SageCage, which I'd assembled piece by piece.† (source)
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The glowing pod-like structure is freed from the ice, but the explorers have only a few minutes to examine the material from which it is made — a thin metal alloy unknown to man — before it vaporizes, leaving a smell of almonds, or patchouli, or burnt sugar, or sulphur, or cyanide.† (source)
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For weeks he wheels carts loaded with various pieces of equipment in and out of the key pound, working long after the museum has closed, and every night he returns to the key pound smelling of brazing alloy and sawdust.† (source)
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Eventually, every hog in every building would reside in an aluminum alloy pen with hot water heat in the floors, automatic feeders and nipple waterers for the shoats.† (source)
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That and the eight whiskered-alloy rods that stand between us and eternity.† (source)
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One can only speculate about why Franz became so attached to McCandless so quickly, but the affection he felt was genuine, intense, and unalloyed. (source)unalloyed = purestandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unalloyed means not and reverses the meaning of alloyed. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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It's all high-tech alloys and mono—filaments.† (source)
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It was black and heavy crafted out of alloyed steel.† (source)
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The curved nails raked Holly's helmet, scoring parallel grooves in the alloy.† (source)
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General Grant, who disliked the Hessians almost as much as he disliked Americans, wrote with unalloyed admiration of how they "surmounted every difficulty," and after gaining the heights kept on "at a trot ...and if General Knyphausen had not stopped Colonel Rall, I am convinced he would have been in the fort in five minutes."† (source)unalloyed = pure (literally with regard to the composition of a metal, or figuratively with regard to an emotion)
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Flux filters, servo-coils, power conditioning alloys, all calibrated to the specific energy grade of the locale.† (source)
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The happiness she was imparting, too, happiness very little alloyed by the black communication which must briefly precede it—the joyful consent of her father and mother to Susan's going with her—the general satisfaction with which the going of both seemed regarded, and the ecstasy of Susan herself, was all serving to support her spirits.† (source)
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It burst at Redd's feet and a shimmering cage of White Imagination-enforced alloy built itself around the queen.† (source)
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Up close, his eyes were a clear, unalloyed blue, striking in their purity.† (source)
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