Definitions
A hard material such as iron, copper, steel, or bronze.
Word origin
From Middle English metal, a borrowing from Old French metal, from Latin metallum (“metal, mine, quarry, mineral”), itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek μέταλλον (métallon, “mine, quarry, metal”).
Used in a sentence
“Manganism has been known about since the 19th century, when miners exposed to ores containing manganese, a silvery metal, began to totter, slur their speech and behave like someone inebriated.”
“Earth is surrounded by a magnetosphere — an invisible bubble of magnetism generated by the powerful churning of molten metals at Earth’s core.”
“Most of the matter in stars is hydrogen and helium, and the metals (including carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, and so on) were cooked up inside stars.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“Steel or bronze”5 letters
02“Hard shiny material”5 letters
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