They pay me, month by month, 100 golden guineas.

But the good thing is, with innovation, there isn't a last nugget.

Bronze is an alloy of copper and approximately 10 to 20 Tin.

Beryllium copper (BeCu), also known as copper beryllium (CuBe), beryllium bronze and spring copper, is a copper alloy with 0.5 3 beryllium and sometimes with other alloying elements.

When we clamp this accurately machined slug at 300 psi and check for deflection

Again we clamp the machined slug at 300 psi and although you might think

This metal wire is a shape memory alloy, and I'm going to make it switch between its different shapes using heat from a lighter.

Wouldn t it be paradoxical, then, if financial alchemy could make an ingot of gold worth dramatically more?

Because, you know, resilience if you think of it in terms of the Gold Rush, then you'd be pretty depressed right now because the last nugget of gold would be gone.

Sterling silver is an alloy of silver containing 92.5 by mass of silver and 7.5 by mass of other metals, usually copper.

It's an amalgam of wood, and cast iron, and felt, and steel strings, and all these, and they're all amazingly sensitive to temperature and humidity.

An alloy used for liquid rocket thruster nozzles, such as in the main engine of the Apollo Lunar Modules, is the niobium alloy C 103, which consists of 89 niobium, 10 hafnium and 1 titanium.

Steel is an alloy of iron and carbon containing less than 2 per cent of carbon and 1 per cent of manganese (and small amounts of silicon, phosphorous, sulphur and oxygen).