List of named alloys

This is a list of named alloys grouped alphabetically by base metal. Within these headings, the alloys are also grouped alphabetically. Some of the main alloying elements are optionally listed after the alloy names.

Aluminium
Aluminium also forms complex metallic alloys, like β–Al–Mg, ξ'–Al–Pd–Mn, and T–Al3Mn.
 * 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 (Titanium 40%, Aluminum 10%), also called Nital
 * Y alloy (4% copper, nickel, magnesium)

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)
 * 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) (beryllium)j
 * 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)
 * 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. <!-- === 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. Low alloy steel is alloyed with other elements, usually molybdenum, manganese, chromium, or nickel, in amounts of up to 10% by weight to improve the hardenability of thick sections. 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.
 * 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

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. Tool steel is generally used in axes, drills, and other devices that need a sharp, long-lasting cutting edge. Other special-purpose alloys include weathering steels such as Cor-ten, which weather by acquiring a stable, rusted surface, and so can be used un-painted. 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

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)
 * 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

 * 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)

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