Definition of "metallurgist" [met•al•lur•gist]

• A person who works in metal (noun)
• A person skilled in metallurgy (noun)

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• "There was a metallurgist from the National Transportation and Safety Board, Michael L. Marx, who was a great resource for us because metallurgical failures were involved in the burn-through of the Shuttle’s solid rocket booster."
• "A Ukrainian metallurgist says he's known about Trinity since childhood."
• "After obtaining his Ph.D. in Belgium in 1972, Khan, a metallurgist by training, traveled to Holland, where he secured a job in a company that made centrifuges suitable to enrich uranium for a nuclear device."