Definition of Misch metal

1. Noun. A pyrophoric alloy made from a mixture of rare-earth metals.

Generic synonyms: Pyrophoric Alloy

Lexicographical Neighbors of Misch Metal

miscegens
miscegeny
miscellanarian
miscellanea
miscellaneous
miscellaneously
miscellaneum
miscellanies
miscellanist
miscellanists
miscellany
miscensure
miscensured
miscensures
miscensuring
misch metal (current term)
mischan
mischance
mischanceful
mischances
mischannel
mischanneled
mischanneling
mischannelled
mischannelling
mischannels
mischans
mischaracterisation
mischaracterisations
mischaracterise

Literary usage of Misch metal

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Transactions by American Foundrymen's Society (1920)
"The melting point of the misch metal may therefore be taken at about 1380 ... The cerium alloy known as misch metal is soft graying- blue in color and quite ..."

2. Qualitative Chemical Analysis: A Guide in Qualitative Work with Data for by Albert Benjamin Prescott, Otis Coe Johnson (1916)
"Commercial "cerium" consists of all of these metals in varying proportion and is known as mixed metal (misch metal). The metal is obtained from the chloride ..."

3. The Metallurgists and Chemists' Handbook: A Reference Book of Tables and by Donald Macy Liddell (1918)
"Fe and 65 per cent, of the metal obtained by reducing the cerium earths (Misch metal, qv). Argental.—Aluminum-silver. Bismuth Alloys.—Bi, 3; Pb, 10; Sn, 5. ..."

4. Elements of Mineralogy, Crystallography and Blowpipe Analysis: From a by Alfred Joseph Moses, Charles Lathrop Parsons (1916)
"Metallic cerium is an important part of the alloy called "misch metal" made from residues after removal of thoria. It is used as a reducing agent and is ..."

5. Introduction to the Rarer Elements by Philip Embury Browning (1917)
"... the chlorides with hydrogen; (3) by heating the oxide (MoO3) with " misch-metal"; (4) by heating the oxide (MoO2) with aluminum (Goldschmidt process). ..."

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