Posted on 01/15/2025 6:57:50 AM PST by Red Badger
From Brave AI:
Red brass Red brass, also known as C23000 brass, is an alloy that typically contains 85% copper and 15% zinc. It is highly valued for its durability, corrosion resistance, and ease of casting. This alloy is widely used in various applications due to its properties:
Plumbing: Red brass is commonly used in plumbing fixtures, pipes, and fittings because of its excellent resistance to dezincification and season cracking. It is also specified for underground service lines due to its corrosion resistance to all types of potable waters. Jewelry: The distinctive reddish hue and malleability of red brass make it a popular choice for jewelry, especially for creating intricate designs. Musical Instruments: In the context of musical instruments, particularly trombones, red brass is used for the bell to influence the sound quality. Users report that a rose brass bell (which is another term for red brass in this context) can produce a more mellow sound compared to yellow brass, which tends to produce a brighter tone. Recycling: Red brass scrap, also known as gunmetal, is highly sought after in the recycling industry due to its high copper content, which exceeds 80%, making it more valuable than yellow brass. Other Applications: Red brass is also used in fire hose couplings, zippers, condenser and heat exchanger tubes, and as a material in modern architecture due to its rich inherent color. Red brass is distinguished from yellow brass by its higher copper content and lower zinc content, which contributes to its superior corrosion resistance and strength.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunmetal
All that glitters is not Orichalcum, PinGGG!................
I was hoping for Mithril.
I found a huge deposit of unobtanium on my property last week.
Interesting stuff. I knew that brass was an alloy of copper and zinc, bit that’s all.
Whoa! I think I’ve may have a couple buckets of Orichalcum under the loading bench in my garage... Cool!
don’t tell your local government or it WILL be unobtanium to you.
Different proportions of copper and zinc yield different properties.
The ancients weren’t so primitive as we seem to think...........
I found wonderflonium on mine.
I might build a freeze ray.
(Dr. Horrible reference)
I wouldn’t want to work around a 2000-degree furnace for long.
They had big furnaces, as is revealed in the Bible, but I would imagine that most copper smelting was done in small, oven sized furnaces with long handled crucibles..........
Nearly all metals are alloys of some kind.
"1st century CE"
CE = Christ Emmanuel....................
The ancients metallurgy was indeed primitive.
The only known metals were coper, zinc, tin, lead, mercury, iron, silver, and gold. (missing something?)
So any metal had to be an alloy of these.
Nice.
Red brass also contains lead ….
California brass does not. It was a new metal invented by the idiots in the California legislature because lead is evil.
Now the brass sold here is brittle and hated by people who work with it for its ridiculous cost and substandard durability.
Democrats destroy everything they touch. They are as ignorant children playing with matches.............
It also indicates that the written histories of those times weren’t necessarily incorrect.
It would seem that more lies are promulgated in the media stream nowadays....
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