An alloy is a material composed of a metallic base, usually the large majority component, and additional metal or non-metal components that are added as property modifiers. Alloys are manufactured and carefully tuned by experiment to deliver desirable properties that are not present in the primary material.
Many alloys are made purely of metals, but non-metal additions such as Silicon, Sulfur, Carbon, Nitrogen, and other light elements are commonly used as property adjusters.
