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View synonyms for noble metal
noble metal
noun
- any of a number of metals, as gold, silver, mercury, or platinum, that resist oxidation when heated in air, and solution by inorganic acids.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of noble metal1
1350–1400; Middle English: precious metal
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Example Sentences
A natural alloy of gold containing 20 per cent silver, termed electrum, is the lowest grade of the noble metal.
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It is well said; but the last letter to Frank Scott is scarcely 210 of a noble metal.
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There was a noble metal collar—about thirty-two, the size would have been, on the usual scale.
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But now, at the first and yet final trial, she is proved and found to be of noble metal.
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It is well said; but the last letter to Frank Scott is scarcely of a noble metal.
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