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What does nonferrous mean?

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Adjective
  1. (of a metal) not iron and not containing iron
  2. (of an alloy) containing no iron
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Metallurgy is represented by companies producing and processing ferrous, nonferrous, and rare-earth metals, and powder metallurgy companies.
All of the pieces are cast or constructed in nonferrous metals, so that they resonate musically.
Industries produce petroleum, nonferrous metals, textiles, wood pulp, and paper.
It is an industrial centre, with food, engineering, chemical, and nonferrous metallurgical industries.
Operation with deionized water is no problem since no nonferrous metals are used.
Among the slowest growing branches were timber and wood processing, textiles, nonferrous metallurgy, and food processing.

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