Converting pure metals into alloys often increases the strength of the product. For example, brass is an alloy of copper and zinc. It is stronger than copper or zinc alone. Copper and zinc atoms ...

Brass alloys, primarily composed of copper and zinc, are widely used in various manufacturing processes due to their favorable mechanical properties and machinability. However, the presence of ...

By this mode of making the copper alloy, a very superior casting is obtained. In England where the manufacture of brass is carried on very extensively, the furnaces employed for smelting have ...

The common alloys employed for making journal boxes are much dearer than a brass composed of zinc 50, and copper 56, and yet they are no harder. For heavy bearing boxes an alloy of copper 82-05 ...

Towards the end of the 18th century, brass founders arrived in Keighley to meet the demand for bearings and other castings. One of the earliest recorded is George Richardson, who also cast bells rung ...

Often said to possess a reddish hue, there were many hints that orichalcum might be a form of brass – an alloy of copper and zinc – although its precise identity wasn’t revealed until ...