Color Names

Burnished Metal

Polished aluminium, softly gleaming, but not sharp enough to cut.

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Burnished Metal is a light grey.

It can be described as light, pale and neutral.

Set in black, because black reads best on it.

Burnished Metal

Metal

A metal is a material that, when polished or fractured, shows a lustrous appearance, and conducts electricity and heat relatively well. These properties are all associated with having electrons available at the Fermi level, as opposed to nonmetallic materials which do not. Metals are typically ductile and malleable.

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burnished

Verb

  1. simple past and past participle of burnish

Adjective

  1. Polished, made shiny by rubbing (especially with a burnisher).
  2. Blazing, bright.
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metal

Noun

  1. Chemical elements or alloys, their ores, and the mines where their ores come from.

Adjective

  1. Characterized by strong drum-beats and distorted guitars. .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}
  2. Having the emotional or social characteristics associated with metal music; brash, bold, frank, unyielding, etc.
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