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Definition of Alnico
1. Noun. Trade name for an alloy used to make high-energy permanent magnets; contains aluminum and iron and nickel plus cobalt or copper or titanium.
Definition of Alnico
1. Noun. An alloy of aluminium, nickel and cobalt (named for their chemical symbols Al, Ni and Co respectively), sometimes alloyed with smaller amounts of iron, copper, titanium and used primarily in the manufacture of magnets. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Alnico
1. an alloy containing aluminum, nickel, and cobalt [n -COS]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Alnico
Literary usage of Alnico
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. New Materials Society, Challenges and Opportunities: New Materials Science ...by DIANE Publishing Company by DIANE Publishing Company (1993)
"This led to the aluminum-nickel-cobalt-iron (Alnico) magnets still widely used
today. The later development of ceramic barium and strontium fer- rite ..."
2. Coalescence by Gyeorgos Ceres Hatonn (1993)
"The only difference between using ordinary magnets like ‘alnico' and for
instance, ‘samarian cobalt', is that you get greater energy output from the ..."
3. Jean Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville by Grace Elizabeth King (1892)
"... and Alnico, on the east of it. The feasting, singing, and dancing — Canadians
no whit behind the Indians in the two latter — lasted until midnight. ..."
4. Measurements for Competitiveness in Electronics (1994)
"For many years Alnico magnets (iron-cobalt-nickel alloys with minor additions of
aluminum and copper) were used for this purpose. ..."
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