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  2. Electrum - Wikipedia

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    Natural electrum "wires" on quartz, historic specimen from the old Smuggler-Union Mine, Telluride, Colorado, USA The Pactolus river, from which Lydia obtained electrum for its early coinage Electrum Phoenician bowl with mythological scenes, a sphinx frieze and the repre­sentation of a king vanquishing his enemies, Cypro-Archaic I, from Idalion, 8th–7th centuries BC (Louvre, Paris) Brooch ...

  3. Gold–aluminium intermetallic - Wikipedia

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    A schematic cross-section of a purple plague in a wire-bond of gold wire on an aluminium pad. (1) Gold wire (2) Purple plague (3) Copper substrate (4) Gap eroded by wire-bond (5) Aluminium contact Gold–aluminium phase diagram. Gold–aluminium intermetallic is a type of intermetallic compound of gold and aluminium that usually forms at ...

  4. Jewelry wire - Wikipedia

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    Jewelry wire is wire, usually copper, brass, nickel, aluminium, silver, or gold, used in jewelry making. Wire is defined today as a single, usually cylindrical, elongated strand of drawn metal. However, when wire was first invented over 2,000 years BC, it was made from gold nuggets pounded into flat sheets, which were then cut into strips. The ...

  5. Native metal - Wikipedia

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    Most gold is mined as native metal and can be found as nuggets, veins or wires of gold in a rock matrix, or fine grains of gold, mixed in with sediments or bound within rock. The iconic image of gold mining for many is gold panning, which is a method of separating flakes and nuggets of pure gold from river sediments due to their great density ...

  6. Wire wrapped jewelry - Wikipedia

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    Color-Coated Copper Wire (also known as Enameled Copper Wire) is copper based crafting wire that is soft, extremely malleable and retains shape moderately well. Precious Metal Wire – sterling silver, fine silver, and gold are the most common – is used for wire-wrapping, chain-making and other jewelry construction. It is available in four ...

  7. Wire bonding - Wikipedia

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    Red–green–blue surface mount LED package with gold wire bonding details. Pure gold wire doped with controlled amounts of beryllium and other elements is normally used for ball bonding. This process brings together the two materials that are to be bonded using heat, pressure and ultrasonic energy referred to as thermosonic bonding.

  8. Company of Mineral and Battery Works - Wikipedia

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    to make "battery ware" (items of beaten metal), cast work, and wire of latten, iron, and steel. to mine calamine stone and use it to make 'latten' and other mixed metals; to mine the royal metals of gold and silver in various English counties, most of which in fact contained little of those minerals. (Most of the metal used by the Company of ...

  9. Wire - Wikipedia

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    Wire was drawn in England from the medieval period. The wire was used to make wool cards and pins, manufactured goods whose import was prohibited by Edward IV in 1463. [5] The first wire mill in Great Britain was established at Tintern in about 1568 by the founders of the Company of Mineral and Battery Works, who had a monopoly on this. [6]