wood's alloy

1. 1.

   a fusible alloy that is half bismuth plus lead, tin, and cadmium; melts at about 160 degrees Fahrenheit

   SynonymsWood's metal

   Broaderalloy

Questions about wood's alloy

What does wood's alloy mean?

wood's alloy means "a fusible alloy that is half bismuth plus lead, tin, and cadmium; melts at about 160 degrees Fahrenheit".

What is another word for wood's alloy?

Close synonyms include Wood's metal. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is wood's alloy a common word?

wood's alloy 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.