Exploring the World of Alloys: Lesson in Vocabulary
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Expand your knowledge with this lesson on alloys, buoyant materials, celestial wonders, coagulation, and more. Learn about combustible substances, conflagrations, dissections, distillation, meteorology, and saturation.
Exploring the World of Alloys: Lesson in Vocabulary
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Alloy • A metal formed by mixing two other metals or by combining a metal and a nonmetal.
Buoyant • Capable of floating in a liquid • Not easily depressed; cheerful • buoyancy (noun)
celestial • Related to the sky or heavens • Heavenly or divine
Coagulate • To change from a liquid to a solid or nearly a solid mass
Combustible • Capable of catching fire;inflammable • Easily excited; quick to anger • combustion (noun)
conflagration • A large destructive fire
dissection • Cutting something apart to examine • A detailed analysis or examination • dissect (verb)
distill • To treat or purify a liquid by heating it until it forms a vapor and then cooling it so that it returns to liquid form. • distillation (noun)
meteorology • The science of dealing with atmospheric conditions, especially weather. • meteorological (adj.) • meteorologist (noun)
saturate • To caused to be thoroughly soaked; fill to capacity. • saturated (adj.) • saturation (noun)