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An alloy is an admixture of metals, or a metal combined with one or more other elements.
For example, combining the metallic elements gold and copper produces red gold, gold and silver becomes white gold,etc..
Alloys are used in a wide variety of applications, from the steel alloys, used in everything from buildings to automobiles to surgical tools, to exotic titanium alloys used in the aerospace industry, to beryllium-copper alloys for non-sparking tools.