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An advocate of bimetallism.

A variety of clay ironstone, in Staffordshire, England, used for making tools.

The act or art precipitating a metal electro-chemical action, by which a coating is deposited, on a prepared surface, as in electroplating and electrotyping; galvanoplasty.

Of or pertaining to hydrometallurgy; involving the use of liquid reagents in the treatment or reduction of ores. -- Hy`dro*met`al*lur"gic*al*ly, adv.

The art or process of assaying or reducing ores by means of liquid reagents.

. An alloy of tin, copper, and mercury, sometimes used for the bearings and packings of machinery. McElrath.

The malleable iron produced by mitis casting; -- called also simply mitis.

A crystalline or frosted appearance produced by some acids on tin plate; also, the tin plate thus treated.

Consisting of one metal; of or pertaining to monometallism.

The legalized use of one metal only, as gold, or silver, in the standard currency of a country, or as a standard of money values. See Bimetallism.

One who believes in monometallism as opposed to bimetallism, etc.

See under Metal.

Any one of the set of elements which, as contrasted with the metals, possess, produce, or receive, acid rather than basic properties; a metalloid; as, oxygen, sulphur, and chlorine are nonmetals.

Not metallic.

Metalorganic.

A finer form of metals, indicated by enhanced lines in their spark spectra (which are also observed in the spectra of some stars), obtained at the highest available laboratory temperatures (Lockyer); as protocalcium, protochromium, protocopper, protonickel, protosilicon, protostrontium, prototitanium, protovanadium. --…

Falsely or imperfectly metallic; -- said of a kind of luster, as in minerals.

An element possessing metallic properties in an inferior degree and not malleable, as arsenic, antimony, bismuth, molybdenum, uranium, etc. [Obs.]

Of or pertaining to a semimetal; possessing metallic properties in an inferior degree; resembling metal.

Any alloy of copper, zinc, tin, and iron, of which cannon are sometimes made.