- Metals science - Study of metals - The art of working metals, comprehending the whole
process of separating them from other matters in the ore, smelting,
refining, and parting them; sometimes, in a narrower sense, only the
process of extracting metals from their ores.
- The science or art of metals and metal working;
also, a treatise on metals. - A method of transferring impressions of the grain of
wood to metallic surfaces by chemical action. - A substitute for lithography, in which metallic
plates are used instead of stone.
- That branch of electrical science which treats
of the effect of an electric current upon the temperature of a
conductor, or a part of a circuit composed of two different metals.
- That form of electricity which is developed by the
chemical action between metals and different liquids; voltaic
electricity; also, the science which treats of this form of
electricity; -- called also galvanism, from Galvani, on account of his
experiments showing the remarkable influence of this agent on animals.