List of named alloys
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
Aluminum
- AA-8000: used for electrical building wire in the U.S. per the National [Electrical Code (US)|National Electrical Code], replacing AA-1350.
- Al–Li : aerospace applications, including the Space Shuttle
- Alnico : used for permanent magnets
- Aluminium–Scandium
- Birmabright : used in car bodies, mainly used by Land Rover cars.
- Devarda's alloy : chemical reducing agent.
- Duralumin
- Hiduminium or R.R. alloys : used in aircraft pistons
- Hydronalium : used in shipbuilding, resists seawater corrosion
- Italma : formerly used to make coinage of the Italian lira
- Magnalium : used in airplane bodies, ladders, pyrotechnics, etc.
- Ni-Ti-Al, also called Nitinol
- Y alloy
Beryllium
Bismuth
- Bismanol ; magnetic alloy from the 1950s using powder metallurgy
- Cerrosafe
- Rose metal
- Wood's metal
Chromium
Cobalt
Copper
- Arsenical copper
- Beryllium copper
- Billon
- Brass see also Brass §Brass types for longer list
- * Calamine brass
- * Chinese silver
- * Dutch metal
- * Gilding metal
- * Muntz metal
- * Pinchbeck
- * Prince's metal
- * Tombac
- Bronze
- * Aluminium bronze
- * Arsenical bronze
- * Bell metal
- * Bismuth bronze
- * Brastil
- * Florentine bronze
- * Glucydur
- * Guanín
- * Gunmetal
- * Phosphor bronze
- * Ormolu
- * Silicon bronze
- * Speculum metal
- * White bronze
- Constantan
- Copper hydride
- Copper–tungsten
- Corinthian bronze
- Cunife
- Cupronickel
- CuSil
- Cymbal alloys
- Devarda's alloy
- Hepatizon
- Manganin
- Melchior ; high corrosion resistance, used in marine applications in condenser tubes
- Nickel silver
- Nordic gold
- Shakudo
- Tellurium copper
- Tumbaga
Gallium
Gold
Indium
Iron
Most iron alloys are steels, with carbon as a major alloying element.- Elinvar
- Fernico
- Ferroalloys
- * Ferroboron
- * Ferrocerium
- * Ferrochrome
- * Ferromagnesium
- * Ferromanganese
- * Ferromolybdenum
- * Ferronickel
- * Ferrophosphorus
- * Ferrosilicon
- * Ferrotitanium
- * Ferrouranium
- * Ferrovanadium
- Invar
- Cast iron
- Pig iron
- Iron hydride
- Kanthal ; used in heating elements, including e-cigarettes
- Kovar
- Spiegeleisen
- Staballoy - see also Uranium below
- Steel
- * Bulat steel
- * Chromoly
- * Crucible steel
- * Damascus steel
- * Ducol
- * Hadfield steel
- * High-speed steel
- ** Mushet steel
- * HSLA steel
- * Maraging steel
- * Reynolds 531
- * Silicon steel
- * Spring steel
- * Stainless steel
- ** AL-6XN
- ** Alloy 20
- ** Celestrium
- ** Marine grade stainless
- ** Martensitic stainless steel
- ** Alloy 28 or Sanicro 28
- ** Surgical stainless steel
- ** Zeron 100
- * Tool steel
- ** Silver steel
- * Weathering steel
- * Wootz steel
- * Wrought iron
Lead
Magnesium
- Elektron
- Magnox ; used in nuclear reactors
- T-Mg–Al–Zn is a complex metallic alloy
Manganese
- MN40, used in a foil for brazing
- MN70, used in a foil for brazing
- Ferromanganese
- Spiegeleisen
Mercury
Nickel
- Alloy 230
- Alnico ; used in magnets
- Alumel
- Brightray ; originally for hard-facing valve seats
- Chromel
- Cupronickel
- Ferronickel
- German silver
- Hastelloy
- Inconel
- Inconel 686
- Invar
- Monel metal
- Nichrome
- Nickel-carbon
- Nicrosil
- Nimonic, used in jet engine turbine blades
- Nisil
- Nitinol
- Magnetically "soft" alloys
- * Mu-metal
- * Permalloy
- * Supermalloy
- * Brass
- ** Nickel hydride
- ** Stainless steel
- **Coin silver
Platinum
Plutonium
- Plutonium–aluminium
- Plutonium–cerium
- Plutonium–cerium–cobalt
- Plutonium–gallium
- Plutonium–gallium–cobalt
- Plutonium–zirconium
Potassium
Rare earths
- Mischmetal
- Terfenol-D, a highly magnetostrictive alloy used in portable speakers such as the SoundBug device
- Ferrocerium
- Neodymium magnets, another strong permanent magnet
- SmCo ; used for permanent magnets in guitar pickups, headphones, satellite transponders, etc.
- Scandium hydride
- Lanthanum-nickel alloy
Rhodium
Silver
- Argentium sterling silver
- Billon
- Britannia silver
- Doré bullion
- Dymalloy
- Electrum
- Goloid
- Platinum sterling
- Shibuichi
- Sterling silver
- Tibetan silver
Titanium
- Ti-6Al-4V
- Beta C
- Gum metal ; used in spectacle frames, precision screws, etc.
- Titanium hydride
- Titanium nitride
- Titanium gold
- Titanium carbide
Tin
- Babbitt
- Britannium
- Pewter
- Queen's metal
- Solder
- Terne
- White metal, ; used as base metal for plating, in bearings, etc.
Tungsten
[|Uranium]
- Staballoy. See also Iron above for Staballoy.
- Uranium hydride
- Mulberry (alloy)