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nanoalloy

nanoalloy noun: an alloy consisting of dispersed nanoparticles of two or more metals.

Noun

nanoalloy (plural nanoalloys)

  1. An alloy consisting of dispersed nanoparticles of two or more metals.
    • 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

Verb

nanoalloy (third-person singular simple present nanoalloys, present participle nanoalloying, simple past and past participle nanoalloyed)

  1. To produce an alloy of this kind.

Forms of nanoalloy

Noun
pluralnanoalloys
Verb
third-person singular presentnanoalloys
present participlenanoalloying
past participlenanoalloyed
pastnanoalloyed

Origin of nanoalloy

From nano- + alloy.

Questions about nanoalloy

What does nanoalloy mean?
Nanoalloy means an alloy consisting of dispersed nanoparticles of two or more metals.
What part of speech is nanoalloy?
Nanoalloy can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of nanoalloy?
The plural of nanoalloy is nanoalloys.

Words near nanoalloy in the dictionary

  1. nanoaggregates
  2. nanoaggregation
  3. nanoaggregations
  4. nanoaggression
  5. nanoaggressions
  6. nanoalloy
  7. nanoalloyed
  8. nanoalloying
  9. nanoalloys
  10. nanoamp
  11. nanoampere

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