{
  "id": "metal.element",
  "term": "metal",
  "sense": "element",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 13,
  "arena": "metal",
  "domain": "emergence",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a substance that stays in one shape and electricity flows through it",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "matter.substance",
      "electricity.electrical",
      "flow.movement",
      "persist.continue",
      "shape.geometric",
      "substance.material"
    ],
    "interaction": "the substance maintains a fixed form while enabling the movement of electrical energy through it",
    "novel_properties": [
      "electrical conductivity",
      "structural rigidity",
      "material persistence"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "Copper wiring in the 1912 RMS Titanic's electrical system conducted electricity reliably until the ship sank.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "Iron meteorites from the Gibeon fall in Namibia retain their solid structure after landing on Earth.",
      "domain": "geology"
    },
    {
      "text": "Aluminum frames of Boeing 747 aircraft maintain rigid shapes during decades of flight cycles.",
      "domain": "aerospace"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "material.physical",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "cable.electrical",
    "jewelry.accessory",
    "silver.metal",
    "smith.metalwork"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "metal",
    "metals"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6,
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "factual",
      "note": "The original record omitted 'substance.material', a higher-order concept essential to grounding the stability of matter in this context. This addition reconciles the definition with the record, as the"
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-metal.element"
}