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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

highly resistant to corrosion and an excellent electrical conductor of heat Jewellery Brass (alloy of copper and zinc) Non-ferrous metal that is strong and ductile, casts well and is gold coloured ...