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Almost all metals are "Alloyed" including Gold and Silver. An Alloy is an Element added to another Element to change its characteristics. For example Chromium and Nickel are added to Steel to create Stainless Steel. If you didn't know these were in the metal you wouldn't know what filler material to use. Filler material includes Electrodes (SMAW) Rods (GTAW AND OAW) and Wire (SMAW). Even Carbon Steel is Alloyed (to increase its Tensile Strength for example). Sometimes as little as 1/10th of 1% of an alloy changes the base metal considerably and thereby the uses of that metal.

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