microalloy

microalloy noun: an alloy made with very small quantities of elements.

Noun

microalloy (plural microalloys)

An alloy made with very small quantities of elements.
- For microalloys the boundary can be treated as a thin layer of the segregating element including segregating impurities. In the case of nanoalloys, the segregation pattern can involve a significant part of the whole grain.2020, Florent Calvo, Nanoalloys: From Fundamentals to Emergent Applications, page 194
An element used in very small quantities in an alloy.
- Today, the use of niobium as a microalloy is estimated to account for about 95% of production.1992, Advanced Materials & Processes, volume 142, page 34

microalloy (third-person singular simple present microalloys, present participle microalloying, simple past and past participle microalloyed)

To add elements to an alloy in much smaller quantities than normal.
- The purpose of this step is to microalloy the aluminum and gold metallizations into the silicon to insure the lowest possible contact resistance […]1978, T. F. Leedy, Yan M. Liu, Microelectronic Processing Laboratory at NBS (volume 13, page 23)

Noun
plural	microalloys
Verb
third-person singular present	microalloys
present participle	microalloying
past participle	microalloyed
past	microalloyed

From micro- + alloy.

What does microalloy mean?: Microalloy means an alloy made with very small quantities of elements.
What part of speech is microalloy?: Microalloy can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of microalloy?: The plural of microalloy is microalloys.

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