pure metal

基本解释

As pure metal, it is used to coat other metals (see plating) and as a catalyst.
作为纯金属时可镀于其它金属表面，也可作催化剂。
In this paper, several thin films samples of Vanadium oxide were got by high-frequency Magnetron sputter with pure metal vanadium as sputter source.
本文以高纯金属钒作为靶材，采用磁控溅射工艺制备氧化钒薄膜。
On it's way back up, it then carries the gold atoms along with it and when the high pressures and temperatures decrease, the gold condenses into veins of pure metal.
当流水返回时便携带着金原子，一旦高温、压开始减弱金就会以纯金属的方式浓缩在矿脉里。

At the risk of being too simplistic to make silicon wafers, which is what you use to make computer chips and solar cells, you take a great big ingot of very pure silicon metal and then slice it very thinly.
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The calculations indicate that the formation of longer chain hydrocarbons can happen in pure methane but the process is accelerated when the methane molecules are in contact with metal or carbon surfaces, e.g. diamond which act as catalysts for the methane-polymerisation to occur.
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