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

Alkali intermetallics

Sodium–potassium alloy

Aluminum

AA-8000: used for electrical building wire in the U.S. per the National Electrical Code, replacing AA-1350.
Al–Li (2.45% lithium): aerospace applications, including the Space Shuttle
Alnico (nickel, cobalt): used for permanent magnets
Aluminium–Scandium (scandium)
Birmabright (magnesium, manganese): used in car bodies, mainly used by Land Rover cars.
Devarda's alloy (45% Al, 50% Cu, 5% Zn): chemical reducing agent.
Duralumin (copper)
Hiduminium or R.R. alloys (2% copper, iron, nickel): used in aircraft pistons
Hydronalium (up to 12% magnesium, 1% manganese): used in shipbuilding, resists seawater corrosion
Italma (3.5% magnesium, 0.3% manganese): formerly used to make coinage of the Italian lira
Magnalium (5-50% magnesium): used in airplane bodies, ladders, pyrotechnics, etc.
Ni-Ti-Al (nickel 50%, titanium 40%, aluminium 10%), also called Nitinol
Y alloy (4% copper, nickel, magnesium)

Aluminium also forms complex metallic alloys, like β–Al–Mg, ξ'–Al–Pd–Mn, and T–Al<sub>3</sub>Mn.

Beryllium

Lockalloy (62% beryllium, 38% aluminium)

Bismuth

Bismanol (manganese); magnetic alloy from the 1950s using powder metallurgy
Cerrosafe (lead, tin, cadmium)
Rose metal (lead, tin)
Wood's metal (lead, tin, cadmium)

Chromium

Chromium hydride (hydrogen)
Nichrome (nickel)
Ferrochrome (iron)

Cobalt

Elgiloy (cobalt, chromium, nickel, iron, molybdenum, manganese, carbon)[Cr-Co-Ni]
Megallium (cobalt, chromium, molybdenum)
Stellite (chromium, tungsten, carbon)
Talonite (tungsten, molybdenum, carbon)
Ultimet (chromium, nickel, iron, molybdenum, tungsten)
Vitallium (chromium, molybdenum)

Copper

Arsenical copper (arsenic)
Beryllium copper (0.5–3% beryllium, 99.5%–97% copper)
Billon (silver)
Brass (zinc) see also Brass §Brass types for longer list
Calamine brass (zinc)
Chinese silver (zinc)
Dutch metal (zinc)
Gilding metal (zinc)
Muntz metal (zinc)
Pinchbeck (zinc)
Prince's metal (zinc)
Tombac (zinc)
Bronze (tin, aluminium or other element)
Aluminium bronze (aluminium)
Arsenical bronze (arsenic, tin)
Bell metal (tin)
Bismuth bronze (bismuth)
Brastil (alloy, bronze)
Florentine bronze (aluminium or tin)
Glucydur (beryllium, iron)
Guanín (gold, silver)
Gunmetal (tin, zinc)
Phosphor bronze (tin and phosphorus)
Ormolu (zinc)
Silicon bronze (tin, arsenic, silicon)
Speculum metal (tin)
White bronze (tin, zinc)
Constantan (nickel)
Copper hydride (hydrogen)
Copper–tungsten (tungsten)
Corinthian bronze (gold, silver)
Cunife (nickel, iron)
Cupronickel (nickel)
CuSil (silver)
Cymbal alloys (tin)
Devarda's alloy (aluminium, zinc)
Hepatizon (gold, silver)
Manganin (manganese, nickel)
Melchior (nickel); high corrosion resistance, used in marine applications in condenser tubes
Nickel silver (nickel)
Nordic gold (aluminium, zinc, tin)
Shakudo (gold)
Tellurium copper (tellurium)
Tumbaga (gold)

Gallium

AlGa (aluminium, gallium)
Galfenol (iron)
Galinstan (indium, tin)

Gold

:See also notes below

Colored gold (silver, copper)
Crown gold (silver, copper)
Electrum (silver)
Purple gold (aluminium)
Goloid
Rhodite (rhodium)
Rose gold (copper)
Tumbaga (copper)
White gold (nickel, palladium)

Indium

Field's metal (bismuth, tin)

Iron

Most iron alloys are steels, with carbon as a major alloying element.

Elinvar (nickel, chromium)
Fernico (nickel, cobalt)
Ferroalloys (:Category:Ferroalloys)
Ferroboron
Ferrocerium
Ferrochrome
Ferromagnesium
Ferromanganese
Ferromolybdenum
Ferronickel
Ferrophosphorus
Ferrosilicon
Ferrotitanium
Ferrouranium
Ferrovanadium
Invar (nickel)
Cast iron (carbon)
Pig iron (carbon)
Iron hydride (hydrogen)
Kanthal (20–30% chromium, 4–7.5% aluminium); used in heating elements, including e-cigarettes
Kovar (nickel, cobalt)
Spiegeleisen (manganese, carbon, silicon)
Staballoy (stainless steel) (manganese, chromium, carbon) - see also Uranium below
Steel (carbon) (:Category:Steels)
Bulat steel
Chromoly (chromium, molybdenum)
Crucible steel
Damascus steel
Ducol
Hadfield steel
High-speed steel
Mushet steel
HSLA steel
Maraging steel
Reynolds 531
Silicon steel (silicon)
Spring steel
Stainless steel (chromium, nickel)
AL-6XN
Alloy 20
Celestrium
Marine grade stainless
Martensitic stainless steel
Alloy 28 or Sanicro 28 (nickel, chromium)
Surgical stainless steel (chromium, molybdenum, nickel)
Zeron 100 (chromium, nickel, molybdenum)
Tool steel (tungsten or manganese)
Silver steel (US:Drill rod) (manganese, chromium, silicon)
Weathering steel ('Cor-ten') (silicon, manganese, chromium, copper, vanadium, nickel)
Wootz steel
Wrought iron

<!-- === Carbon steels ===

Modern steels are made with varying combinations of alloy metals to fulfill many purposes. Carbon steel, composed simply of iron and carbon, accounts for 90% of steel production. High strength low alloy steel has small additions (usually < 2% by weight) of other elements, typically 1.5% manganese, to provide additional strength for a modest price increase.

Recent Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) regulations have given rise to a new variety of steel known as Advanced High Strength Steel (AHSS). This material is both strong and ductile so that vehicle structures can maintain their current safety levels while using less material. There are several commercially available grades of AHSS, such as dual-phase steel, which is heat treated to contain both a ferritic and martensitic microstructure to produce a formable, high strength steel. Transformation Induced Plasticity (TRIP) steel involves special alloying and heat treatments to stabilize amounts of austenite at room temperature in normally austenite-free low-alloy ferritic steels. By applying strain, the austenite undergoes a phase transition to martensite without the addition of heat. Twinning Induced Plasticity (TWIP) steel uses a specific type of strain to increase the effectiveness of work hardening on the alloy.

Carbon Steels are often galvanized, through hot-dip or electroplating in zinc for protection against rust.

Stainless steels contain a minimum of 11% chromium, often combined with nickel, to resist corrosion. Some stainless steels, such as the ferritic stainless steels are magnetic, while others, such as the austenitic, are nonmagnetic. Corrosion-resistant steels are abbreviated as CRES.

Some more modern steels include tool steels, which are alloyed with large amounts of tungsten and cobalt or other elements to maximize solution hardening. This also allows the use of precipitation hardening and improves the alloy's temperature resistance. Maraging steel is alloyed with nickel and other elements, but unlike most steel contains little carbon (0.01%). This creates a very strong but still malleable steel.

Eglin steel uses a combination of over a dozen different elements in varying amounts to create a relatively low-cost steel for use in bunker buster weapons. Hadfield steel (after Sir Robert Hadfield) or manganese steel contains 12–14% manganese which when abraded strain-hardens to form an incredibly hard skin which resists wearing. Examples include tank tracks, bulldozer blade edges and cutting blades on the jaws of life. -->

Lead

Molybdochalkos (copper)
Solder (tin)
Terne (tin)
Type metal (tin, antimony)

Magnesium

Elektron
Magnox (0.8% aluminium, 0.004% beryllium); used in nuclear reactors
T-Mg–Al–Zn (Bergman phase) is a complex metallic alloy

Manganese

MN40, used in a foil for brazing
MN70, used in a foil for brazing
Ferromanganese
Spiegeleisen

Mercury

Amalgam
Ashtadhatu

Nickel

Alloy 230
Alnico (aluminium, cobalt); used in magnets
Alumel (manganese, aluminium, silicon)
Brightray (20% chromium, iron, rare earths); originally for hard-facing valve seats
Chromel (chromium)
Cupronickel (bronze, copper)
Ferronickel (iron)
German silver (copper, zinc)
Hastelloy (molybdenum, chromium, sometimes tungsten)
Inconel (chromium, iron)
Inconel 686 (chromium, molybdenum, tungsten)
Invar
Monel metal (copper, iron, manganese)
Nichrome (chromium)
Nickel-carbon (carbon)
Nicrosil (chromium, silicon, magnesium)
Nimonic (chromium, cobalt, titanium), used in jet engine turbine blades
Nisil (silicon)
Nitinol (titanium, shape memory alloy)
Magnetically "soft" alloys
Mu-metal (iron)
Permalloy (iron, molybdenum)
Supermalloy (molybdenum)
Brass (copper, zinc, manganese)
Nickel hydride (hydrogen)
Stainless steel (chromium, molybdenum, carbon, manganese, sulfur, phosphorus, silicon)
Coin silver (nickel)

Platinum

Platinum-iridium

Plutonium

Plutonium–aluminium
Plutonium–cerium
Plutonium–cerium–cobalt
Plutonium–gallium (gallium)
Plutonium–gallium–cobalt
Plutonium–zirconium

Rare earths

Mischmetal (various rare earth elements)
Terfenol-D (terbium, dysprosium, and iron), a highly magnetostrictive alloy used in portable speakers such as the SoundBug device
Ferrocerium (cerium, iron)
Neodymium magnets, another strong permanent magnet
SmCo (cobalt); used for permanent magnets in guitar pickups, headphones, satellite transponders, etc.
Scandium hydride (hydrogen)
Lanthanum-nickel alloy (nickel)

Rhodium

Pseudo palladium (rhodium–silver alloy)

Silver

Argentium sterling silver (copper, germanium)
Billon
Britannia silver (copper)
Doré bullion (gold)
Dymalloy (copper, metal matrix composite with diamond)
Electrum (gold)
Goloid (copper, gold)
Platinum sterling (platinum)
Shibuichi (copper)
Sterling silver (copper)
Tibetan silver (copper)

Titanium

Beta C (vanadium, chromium, others)
Grade 5 Titanium (aluminium, vanadium) [Ti-6Al-4V]
Gum metal (niobium, tantalum, zirconium, oxygen); used in spectacle frames, precision screws, etc.
Titanium carbide (carbon) [Ti-C]
Titanium gold (gold)
Titanium hydride (hydrogen)
Titanium nitride (nitrogen)

Tin

Babbitt (copper, antimony, lead; used for bearing surfaces)
Britannium (copper, antimony)
Pewter (antimony, copper)
Queen's metal (antimony, lead, and bismuth)
Solder (lead, antimony)
Terne (lead)
White metal, (copper or lead); used as base metal for plating, in bearings, etc.
Lead free solder (copper, silver)

Tungsten

Carboloy (cobalt)

Uranium

Staballoy (depleted uranium with other metals, usually titanium or molybdenum). See also Iron above for Staballoy (stainless steel).
Uranium hydride (hydrogen)
Mulberry (alloy) (niobium, zirconium)

Zinc

Zamak (aluminium, magnesium, copper)
Electroplated zinc alloys