metallurgyin a sentence
- She majored in metallurgy and today is an expert on the mechanical properties of steel.
- In the Age of Bronze, when a canny few discovered the science of metallurgy, how long did it take for them to fashion coins, crowns, and swords?† (source)
- Chief metallurgist to King Charles the Fifth of Spain?† (source)
- …candidates] who grasped that building an atomic bomb required finding practical solutions to a variety of cross-disciplinary problems [Groves] found himself nodding in agreement when Oppenheimer pitched the notion of a central laboratory devoted to this purpose, where, as he later testified, "we could begin to come to grips with chemical, metallurgical, engineering and ordnance problems that had so far received no consideration" Would Oppenheimer have lost his scholarship at Reed?† (source)
- There was also a full forge and smelt-works that would figure prominently in any metallurgist's daydreams.† (source)
- Metallurgy and electrical engineering would come up for attention.† (source)
- For the next five hours, by Eragon's reckoning, Oromis delved into every aspect of his and Saphira's knowledge, from botany to woodworking to metallurgy and medicine, although he mainly concentrated on their grasp of history and the ancient language.† (source)
- The vibration is mainly a surface ship problem, and the screw degradation was eventually conquered by improved metallurgical technology.† (source)
- Instead, it was in a dead-end alleyway around the corner and across from a long-since-closed factory whose faded signs indicated a once flourishing metallurgical refining plant in what had to be the ugliest part of the city.† (source)
- The second was the man who had overseen the team division responsible for sifting the wreckage for metallurgical evidence.† (source)
- It was almost a metallurgical process deep inside the core of who I was, something that had already begun, was already nearly forged.† (source)
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- "The consensus of the best metallurgical authorities," he said, "seems to be highly skeptical about Rearden Metal, contending-"† (source)
- It included math, mythology, metallurgy, science, and ancient history.† (source)
- He also wants to learn more about metallurgy, and he's especially eager to study industrial electronics.† (source)
- The metallurgist was a necessity.† (source)
- "He's been talking himself hoarse for days, and the scribes are taking it all down-geology, mining, metallurgy, petroleum chemistry …."† (source)
- He was a pioneer in powder metallurgy.
- The metallurgy group is working on the development of exceptionally strong and light-weight metals.
- Well, metallurgy is not exactly-what shall we say?† (source)
- "You're also a metallurgist and know that neither composition is pure nickel iron.† (source)
- No. Are you familiar with the metallurgical nature of Rearden Metal, Dr. Stadler?† (source)
- I like to hang around…… You know, Mr. Rearden, what I studied to be was a metallurgist.† (source)
- I have a superintendent 77! in charge of it now, who used to be my best metallurgist in Chile.† (source)
- I don't blame our metallurgical department!" he said angrily.† (source)
- The crews had remained at work, under a Taggart engineer and a Rearden metallurgist.† (source)
- They did not hire metallurgists to examine samples, nor engineers to visit the site of construction.† (source)
- For not only was the piece pure in the metallurgical sense, the winking double eagle on the reverse confirmed to the experienced eye that it was one of the five thousand coins minted in commemoration of Catherine the Great's coronation.† (source)
- I suppose another reason is that their metallurgical technology isn't as good as ours—same reason that their jet and rocket engines are less efficient.† (source)
- I don't know that I'd be of much use to you, I've got a college diploma in metallurgy, but that's not worth the paper it's printed on.† (source)
- He would say about people, "He's old-fashioned," "He's unreconstructed," "He's unadjusted," without hesitation or explanation; he would also say, while being a graduate in metallurgy, "Iron smelting, I think, seems to require a high temperature."† (source)
- If you consider that for thirteen years this Institute has had a department of metallurgical research, which has cost over twenty million dollars and has produced nothing but a new silver polish and a new anti-corrosive preparation, which, I believe, is not so good as the old ones-you can imagine what the public reaction will be if some private individual comes out with a product that revolutionizes the entire science of metallurgy and proves to be sensationally successful!† (source)
- …been followed by a few cocktails at the home of Orren Boyle, with only one unobtrusive gentleman from Argentina sitting silently in a corner, while two executives from Washington and a few friends of unspecified positions had talked about national resources, metallurgy, mineralogy, neighborly duties and the welfare of the globe-and had mentioned that a loan of four billion dollars would be granted within three weeks to the People's State of Argentina and the People's State of Chile.† (source)
- The superintendent, the chief metallurgist, the chief engineer, Rearden's secretary, even the hospital doctor!† (source)
- Why, no, I don't say that that bridge will collapse," said the chief metallurgist of Associated Steel, on a television program.† (source)
- Chief metallurgists for the biggest corporations, with a string of degrees from universities all over the country ….† (source)
- But I believe I have made it clear that the State Science Institute does not approve of the appearance of Rearden Metal on the metallurgical scene at the present time.† (source)
- The interview was devoted to the subject of the grave social responsibility of metallurgists, stressing the fact that metal performed so many crucial tasks where human lives depended on its quality.† (source)
- Rearden had sent two metallurgists to train Mowen's men, to teach, to show, to explain every step of the process, and had paid the salaries of Mowen's men while they were being trained.† (source)
- The first bearer of the title of "People's Manager," appointed to run the mills, had been a man of the Orren Boyle faction, a pudgy hanger-on of the metallurgical industry, who had wanted nothing but to follow his employees while going through the motions of leading.† (source)
- If you consider that for thirteen years this Institute has had a department of metallurgical research, which has cost over twenty million dollars and has produced nothing but a new silver polish and a new anti-corrosive preparation, which, I believe, is not so good as the old ones-you can imagine what the public reaction will be if some private individual comes out with a product that revolutionizes the entire science of metallurgy and proves to be sensationally successful!† (source)
- Which would have advanced the most at the end of a month—the boy who had made his own jackknife from the ore which he had dug and smelted, reading as much as would be necessary for this—or the boy who had attended the lectures on metallurgy at the Institute in the meanwhile, and had received a Rodgers' penknife from his father?† (source)
- Phenomenon almost incredible though distinctly seen, what did he then behold but his own metallurgical Louisa, peeping with all her might through a hole in a deal board, and his own mathematical Thomas abasing himself on the ground to catch but a hoof of the graceful equestrian Tyrolean flower-act!† (source)
- They had a little conchological cabinet, and a little metallurgical cabinet, and a little mineralogical cabinet; and the specimens were all arranged and labelled, and the bits of stone and ore looked as though they might have been broken from the parent substances by those tremendously hard instruments their own names; and, to paraphrase the idle legend of Peter Piper, who had never found his way into their nursery, If the greedy little Gradgrinds grasped at more than this, what was it…† (source)
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