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a light silver-coloured metal that is used for making things such as pans for cooking

the American spelling of aluminium

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a soft metal that is a silver-white colour

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an ore from which the metal aluminium is obtained

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a shiny yellow metal that is used for making musical instruments and objects such as door handles. It is a mixture of copper and zinc

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a hard brown metal used for making statues and objects for decoration. It is made by mixing copper and tin.

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a chemical element that is a metal and is used, for example, in making batteries

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very hard iron that breaks easily. It is made into objects by being heated and poured into moulds.

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a hard metal alloy (=a combination of different metals) used for covering other metals to make them shiny

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a white metal used for making alloys (=combinations of different metals) and for putting a hard shiny covering on other metals

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a hard silver-white metal used in alloys (=combinations of metals) and for making things blue

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a red-brown metal used especially for making wire or pipes

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a yellow metal that looks like gold

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a valuable yellow metal used for making jewellery

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a dull grey metal made from copper, tin, and zinc

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a hard heavy metal that is a common element. It is used for making steel and is also used in many types of machine and building structures.

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a soft heavy grey metal used especially in the past for making pipes, covering roofs, and in paint

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a very soft silver-white metal that is lighter than all other metals

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a type of iron that attracts other iron or steel

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a chemical element that is a light grey metal. Magnesium burns very brightly and is used in photography and for making fireworks.

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a piece of metal that can make iron or steel objects come to it so that they seem to stick to it

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a hard grey metal used for making steel and glass

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a silver liquid metal element that is used in thermometers (=pieces of equipment that measure temperature)

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a hard silver metal

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a grey metal made by mixing lead and tin, used in the past for making plates, cups, and other objects

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iron that has not been treated to make it more pure

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a silver-grey metal used in industry and for making expensive jewellery

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a soft white metal that is used, combined with other substances, for making soap and fertilizer

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a hard substance found in rock that is a mixture of sulphur (=a yellow element) and a metal, especially iron. It is also known as fool’s gold because it looks very much like gold.

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mercury

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a thin layer of gold covering a less expensive metal

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a light grey bright metal used for making jewellery, coins, silverware, etc

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a chemical element that is a silver-white metal, usually found combined with other chemicals

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steel that has been treated to stop rust forming on its surface, used for making knives, tools, and other things

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a strong metal made from a mixture of iron and carbon

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silver of a standard quality

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a soft grey metal that burns easily, used in fireworks

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a metal that allows electricity to pass through it without any resistance at very low temperatures

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a soft light silver metal, often used for covering iron or steel. Tin is a chemical element.

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flat pieces of iron or steel covered with tin

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a strong light and expensive white metal that is a chemical element

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a very hard metal used for making steel

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a chemical element that is a metal and is used for producing nuclear energy because it is radioactive

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iron used for making things such as fences and gates, especially for decoration

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a chemical element that is a blue-white metal