what is alloys?

Answer 1

Alloy is an homogenous mixture of two or more metals .it can also contain a non-metal .e.g- stainless steel is an alloy of iron and carbon.
mostly alloys are made to improve the properties of metals e.g- steel is more hard and resistant to crossion than the pure iron.
It is a common thing u must have heard about the alloy wheels .

Answer 2

An alloy is a combination, either in solution or compound, of two or more elements, at least one of which is a metal, and where the resulting material has metallic properties. The resulting metallic substance has different properties (sometimes significantly different) from those of its components.
Alloys are usually prepared to improve on the desirable properties of their components. Steel, for instance, is stronger than iron, its primary component. The physical properties of an alloy, such as density, reactivity and electrical and thermal conductivity may not differ greatly from the alloy's elements, but engineering properties, such as tensile strength, shear strength and Young's modulus, can be substantially different from those of the constituent materials. This is sometimes due to the differing sizes of the atoms in the alloy—larger atoms exert a compressive force on neighbouring atoms, and smaller atoms exert a tensile force on their neighbours. This helps the alloy resist deformation, unlike a pure metal where the atoms move more freely.

Unlike pure metals, most alloys do not have a single melting point. Instead, they have a melting range in which the material is a mixture of solid and liquid phases. The temperature at which melting begins is called the solidus, and that at which melting is complete is called the liquidus. However, for most pairs of elements, there is a particular ratio which has a single melting point; this is called the eutectic mixture.

Alloys can be classified by the number of their constituents. An alloy with two components is called a binary alloy; one with three is a ternary alloy, and so forth. Alloys can be further classified as either substitutional alloys or interstitial alloys, depending on their method of formation. In subsititutional alloys, the atoms of the components are approximately the same size and the various atoms are simply substituted for one another in the crystal structure. An example of a (binary) substitutional alloy is brass, made up of copper and zinc. Interstitial alloys occur when the atoms of one component are substantially smaller than the other and the smaller atoms fit into the spaces (interstices) between the larger atoms.

Answer 3

alloys is a mixture of two different metals.
it will be stronger and is more resistant to corrosion(:

Answer 4

alloys is a colloidal mixture of different metals.

Answer 5

alloys are homogeneous and hetrogeneous or both hetrogeneous and both homogeneous mixture of metals and non-metals.

Answer 6

often refered to nice wheels on cars (metal rims)

Answer 7

and a type of rim