This is a list of named alloys grouped alphabetically by the metal with the highest percentage. Within these headings, the alloys are also grouped alphabetically. Some of the main alloying elements are optionally listed after the alloy names.
Alloys by base metal
Alkali intermetallics
Aluminum
- AA-8000: used for electrical building wire in the U.S. per the National Electrical Code, replacing AA-1350.
- AlâÂÂLi (2.45% lithium): aerospace applications, including the Space Shuttle
- Alnico (nickel, cobalt): used for permanent magnets
- AluminiumâÂÂScandium (scandium)
- Birmabright (magnesium, manganese): used in car bodies, mainly used by Land Rover cars.
- Devarda's alloy (45% Al, 50% Cu, 5% Zn): chemical reducing agent.
- Duralumin (copper)
- Hiduminium or R.R. alloys (2% copper, iron, nickel): used in aircraft pistons
- Hydronalium (up to 12% magnesium, 1% manganese): used in shipbuilding, resists seawater corrosion
- Italma (3.5% magnesium, 0.3% manganese): formerly used to make coinage of the Italian lira
- Magnalium (5-50% magnesium): used in airplane bodies, ladders, pyrotechnics, etc.
- Ni-Ti-Al (nickel 50%, titanium 40%, aluminium 10%), also called Nitinol
- Y alloy (4% copper, nickel, magnesium)
Aluminium also forms complex metallic alloys, like òâÂÂAlâÂÂMg, þ'âÂÂAlâÂÂPdâÂÂMn, and TâÂÂAl<sub>3</sub>Mn.
Beryllium
Bismuth
Chromium
Cobalt
- Elgiloy (cobalt, chromium, nickel, iron, molybdenum, manganese, carbon)[Cr-Co-Ni]
- Megallium (cobalt, chromium, molybdenum)
- Stellite (chromium, tungsten, carbon)
- Talonite (tungsten, molybdenum, carbon)
- Ultimet (chromium, nickel, iron, molybdenum, tungsten)
- Vitallium (chromium, molybdenum)
Copper
- Arsenical copper (arsenic)
- Beryllium copper (0.5âÂÂ3% beryllium, 99.5%âÂÂ97% copper)
- Billon (silver)
- Brass (zinc) see also Brass çBrass types for longer list
- Calamine brass (zinc)
- Chinese silver (zinc)
- Dutch metal (zinc)
- Gilding metal (zinc)
- Muntz metal (zinc)
- Pinchbeck (zinc)
- Prince's metal (zinc)
- Tombac (zinc)
- Bronze (tin, aluminium or other element)
- Aluminium bronze (aluminium)
- Arsenical bronze (arsenic, tin)
- Bell metal (tin)
- Bismuth bronze (bismuth)
- Brastil (alloy, bronze)
- Florentine bronze (aluminium or tin)
- Glucydur (beryllium, iron)
- GuanÃÂn (gold, silver)
- Gunmetal (tin, zinc)
- Phosphor bronze (tin and phosphorus)
- Ormolu (zinc)
- Silicon bronze (tin, arsenic, silicon)
- Speculum metal (tin)
- White bronze (tin, zinc)
- Constantan (nickel)
- Copper hydride (hydrogen)
- CopperâÂÂtungsten (tungsten)
- Corinthian bronze (gold, silver)
- Cunife (nickel, iron)
- Cupronickel (nickel)
- CuSil (silver)
- Cymbal alloys (tin)
- Devarda's alloy (aluminium, zinc)
- Hepatizon (gold, silver)
- Manganin (manganese, nickel)
- Melchior (nickel); high corrosion resistance, used in marine applications in condenser tubes
- Nickel silver (nickel)
- Nordic gold (aluminium, zinc, tin)
- Shakudo (gold)
- Tellurium copper (tellurium)
- Tumbaga (gold)
Gallium
Gold
See also notes below
Indium
Iron
Most iron alloys are steels, with carbon as a major alloying element.
- Elinvar (nickel, chromium)
- Fernico (nickel, cobalt)
- Ferroalloys ()
- Ferroboron
- Ferrocerium
- Ferrochrome
- Ferromagnesium
- Ferromanganese
- Ferromolybdenum
- Ferronickel
- Ferrophosphorus
- Ferrosilicon
- Ferrotitanium
- Ferrouranium
- Ferrovanadium
- Invar (nickel)
- Cast iron (carbon)
- Pig iron (carbon)
- Iron hydride (hydrogen)
- Kanthal (20âÂÂ30% chromium, 4âÂÂ7.5% aluminium); used in heating elements, including e-cigarettes
- Kovar (nickel, cobalt)
- Spiegeleisen (manganese, carbon, silicon)
- Staballoy (stainless steel) (manganese, chromium, carbon) - see also Uranium below
- Steel (carbon) ()
- Bulat steel
- Chromoly (chromium, molybdenum)
- Crucible steel
- Damascus steel
- Ducol
- Hadfield steel
- High-speed steel
- Mushet steel
- HSLA steel
- Maraging steel
- Reynolds 531
- Silicon steel (silicon)
- Spring steel
- Stainless steel (chromium, nickel)
- AL-6XN
- Alloy 20
- Celestrium
- Marine grade stainless
- Martensitic stainless steel
- Alloy 28 or Sanicro 28 (nickel, chromium)
- Surgical stainless steel (chromium, molybdenum, nickel)
- Zeron 100 (chromium, nickel, molybdenum)
- Tool steel (tungsten or manganese)
- Silver steel (US:Drill rod) (manganese, chromium, silicon)
- Weathering steel ('Cor-ten') (silicon, manganese, chromium, copper, vanadium, nickel)
- Wootz steel
- Wrought iron
Lead
Magnesium
Manganese
Mercury
Nickel
- Alloy 230
- Alnico (aluminium, cobalt); used in magnets
- Alumel (manganese, aluminium, silicon)
- Brightray (20% chromium, iron, rare earths); originally for hard-facing valve seats
- Chromel (chromium)
- Cupronickel (bronze, copper)
- Ferronickel (iron)
- German silver (copper, zinc)
- Hastelloy (molybdenum, chromium, sometimes tungsten)
- Inconel (chromium, iron)
- Inconel 686 (chromium, molybdenum, tungsten)
- Invar
- Monel metal (copper, iron, manganese)
- Nichrome (chromium)
- Nickel-carbon (carbon)
- Nicrosil (chromium, silicon, magnesium)
- Nimonic (chromium, cobalt, titanium), used in jet engine turbine blades
- Nisil (silicon)
- Nitinol (titanium, shape memory alloy)
- Magnetically "soft" alloys
- Mu-metal (iron)
- Permalloy (iron, molybdenum)
- Supermalloy (molybdenum)
- Brass (copper, zinc, manganese)
- Nickel hydride (hydrogen)
- Stainless steel (chromium, molybdenum, carbon, manganese, sulfur, phosphorus, silicon)
- Coin silver (nickel)
Platinum
Plutonium
Rare earths
Rhodium
Silver
Titanium
Tin
- Babbitt (copper, antimony, lead; used for bearing surfaces)
- Britannium (copper, antimony)
- Pewter (antimony, copper)
- Queen's metal (antimony, lead, and bismuth)
- Solder (lead, antimony)
- Terne (lead)
- White metal, (copper or lead); used as base metal for plating, in bearings, etc.
- Lead free solder (copper, silver)
Tungsten
Uranium
Zinc
See also
Notes
References