10 sentences with “metals”

The hard work of the miners allowed for the extraction of valuable precious metals from the depths of the earth.

Heavy metals are a group of metals with a high molecular weight: lead, mercury, cadmium, iron, copper, manganese, etc.

An alloy is a combination of metals created when metals are joined at the molecular level to create an entirely new material.

Heavy metals are toxic in their inorganic form and some, such as lead, mercury and cadmium, have no nutritional value whatsoever.

Officially, all conquistadors were obliged to hand over the "royal fifth" - 20% of all precious metals discovered or mined - of all booty to the crown.

Isaac Newton was a scientist, but also an alchemist, who spent a lot of time and effort trying to figure out how to "transmute" base metals like lead into gold.

According to this mentality, kingdoms could only increase their wealth by seizing more territory, especially territories that would somehow increase the flow of precious metals into the royal coffers.

Europeans now had access not only to vast quantities of precious metals, but also to vast new natural resources - from huge fish stocks to millions of acres of fertile land - that were to reinforce European power for centuries to come.

In both the medieval and Renaissance mindsets, the only forms of wealth were land and gold bullion (precious metals), and since there is only so much land and so much gold and silver to go around, if one society became richer, by definition all other societies became poorer.

Spain's vast empire continued to produce great wealth, but relatively little of it ended up in the monarchy's coffers, and the large-scale, slave-based extraction of precious metals from the New World clashed with simple economic laws: by the 17th century this bullion-based system was in dire straits thanks to the inflation of silver imports introduced into the European economy.