# 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
### Aluminium

* 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%, aluminum 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$_3$Mn.

### Beryllium

* Lockalloy (62% beryllium, 38% aluminum)

### 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, aluminum or other element)
** Aluminium bronze (aluminum)
** 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 (aluminum)
* 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

### 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, sulphur, phosphorus, silicon)
*** Coin silver (nickel)

### Platinum

* Platinum-iridium

### Plutonium

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

### Potassium

* NaK (sodium)
* KLi (lithium)

### 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

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

### 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.

### 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