alloy

mixture or metallic solid solution composed of two or more elements
Place numismatic_term Q37756
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Summary

alloy is a numismatic term[1]. alloy draws 6,366 Wikipedia views per month (numismatic term category, ranking #1 of 4).[2]

Key Facts

  • Subclass of: solution[3], metallic material[4]
  • Commons category: Alloys[5]
  • Said to be the same as: alloy[6]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Alloys[7]
  • Described by source: Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[8], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[9], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[10], The American Cyclopædia[11], The New Student's Reference Work[12], Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 6[13]
  • Topic has template: Template:Infobox alloy[14], Šablona:Infobox - slitina[15]
  • Equivalent class: https://w3id.org/pmd/co/PMD_0025004[16]
  • Different from: intermetallic[17]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[18]
  • Maintained by WikiProject: WikiProject Chemistry[19], WikiProject Metalworking[20]
  • P10203: 2506[21]

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Cultural Significance

Things named for alloy include Liquidmetal[22], a trademark[23].

Why It Matters

alloy has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[24] alloy is known by 66 alternative names across languages and contexts.[25]

Entities named for alloy include Liquidmetal[22], a trademark[23].

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Direct Wikidata claims

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  14. [16] ↑ . Q141572184. wikidata.org.
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  1. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [23] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [24] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [25] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 18d ago · عُثمان · 2026-09-27 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Sitelink count → 125
    Equivalent class → https://w3id.org/pmd/co/PMD_0025004
    Wikipedia languages → ['af', 'anp', 'ar', 'ast', 'az', 'azb', 'bar', 'be', 'be_x_old', 'bg', 'bn', 'bo
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Equivalent class: https://w3id.org/pmd/co/PMD_0025004"
  2. 8w ago · Baum64 · 2026-08-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of → solution, metallic material
    "/* wbremoveclaims-remove:1| */ Subclass of: mixture, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/269133|batch #269133]]"
  3. 14w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-07-04 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → alloys
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: alloys, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289913010|alloys (#289913010)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]] #mix'n'mat"
  4. 17w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → h0003835-slitiny
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: h0003835-slitiny, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259495|batch #259495]]"
  5. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Different from → intermetallic
    Subclass of → solution, metallic material
    Maintained by wikiproject → WikiProject Chemistry, WikiProject Metalworking
    Topic has template → Template:Infobox alloy, Šablona:Infobox - slitina
    + 8 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|6 */ Yso id: 4519, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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