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Vedal

Vedal noun: a process and material widely employed in the aircraft industry, using a layer of aluminium over another metal to prevent corrosion.

Noun

Vedal (uncountable)

  1. A process and material widely employed in the aircraft industry, using a layer of aluminium over another metal to prevent corrosion.
    • A similar process called Vedal, later appeared in France.2020, Toufa Ouissi, “Evolution of Light Alloys in Aeronautics: the Case of Duralumin from its Discovery to the End of WWII”, in Nacelles, past and present of aeronautics & space, number 8

Origin of Vedal

From the French vêtu d'aluminium (clad in aluminium).

Questions about Vedal

What does Vedal mean?
Vedal means a process and material widely employed in the aircraft industry, using a layer of aluminium over another metal to prevent corrosion.
What part of speech is Vedal?
Vedal is a noun.

Words near Vedal in the dictionary

  1. VED
  2. veda
  3. vedaclidine
  4. Vedaic
  5. Vedaism
  6. Vedal
  7. Vedalai
  8. vedalia
  9. vedalias
  10. vedana
  11. vedanas

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