Question

Which of these statements about alloys and intermetallic compounds is false? Which of these statements about alloys and intermetallic compounds is false? Intermetallics are compounds of two or more metals that have a definite composition and are not considered alloys. Bronze is an example of an alloy. "Alloy" is just another word for "a chemical compound of fixed composition that is made of two or more metals." Alloys can be formed even if the atoms that comprise them are rather different in size. If you mix two metals together and, at the atomic level, they separate into two or more different compositional phases, you have created a heterogeneous alloy.

Answer 1

The statement that is an alloy is just another word for a chemical compound of fixed composition that is made of two or more metals is false.  

An alloy refers to the mixture of the elements in which the parent element is the metal. An alloy is produced by the amalgamation of any element, that is, metal or non-metal to better the feature of the parent metal. The whole components in the alloy are combined to produce a mixture of fixed composition, but not a chemical compound, and it is not essential that the elements involved are metals. Thus, the mentioned statement is false.