| 单词 | iron-nickel |
| 释义 | > as lemmasiron-nickel iron-nickel n. an alloy of iron and nickel, esp. one occurring in meteorites or (it is thought) the core of the earth or another planet; cf. nickel-iron n. ΚΠ 1855 J. A. Galbraith & S. Haughton Man. Astron. i. 20 The meteoric stones proper are composed of minerals of volcanic origin... Together with a varying proportion of the meteoric iron-nickel alloy. 1875 Manufacturer & Builder Nov. 254/3 It is known that the iron-nickel meteorites often contain hydrogen in occlusion.] 1903 A. Geikie Text-bk. Geol. (ed. 4) I. i. i. 17 Well-known minerals of the earth's crust, including olivine (which comes next in abundance after iron-nickel). 1950 Jrnl. Iron & Steel Inst. 165 245/1 The bending fatigue properties were determined for electroformed sheets of iron-nickel. 1991 S. F. Mason Chem. Evol. vii. 82 Condensates formed..within the inner solar system had a high-temperature composition, metallic iron-nickel, SiO2, MgO, Al2O3, CaO, and other oxides, resembling the stony-iron meteorites. 2009 Space Daily (Nexis) 24 Feb. Another [asteroidal lava type], the mesosiderites, are fragmented basalt lava flows mixed with metallic iron-nickel that then slowly cooled. < as lemmas |
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