fusible metal

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   an alloy with a low melting point and used as solder and in safety plugs and sprinkler fuses

   Broaderalloy

Questions about fusible metal

What does fusible metal mean?

fusible metal means "an alloy with a low melting point and used as solder and in safety plugs and sprinkler fuses".

Is fusible metal a common word?

fusible metal is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.