any of several chemical elements that are usually shiny solids that conduct heat or electricity and can be formed into sheets etc. | a United States coin worth one twentieth of a dollar |
a mixture containing two or more metallic elements or metallic and nonmetallic elements usually fused together or dissolving into each other when molten | five dollars worth of a drug |
| a hard malleable ductile silvery metallic element that is resistant to corrosion; used in alloys; occurs in pentlandite and smaltite and garnierite and millerite |