enow.com Web Search

  1. Ad

    related to: used brass

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Brass - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brass

    Islamic Golden Age brass astrolabe Brass lectern with an eagle. Attributed to Aert van Tricht, Limburg (Netherlands), c. 1500.. Brass is an alloy of copper and zinc, in proportions which can be varied to achieve different colours and mechanical, electrical, acoustic and chemical properties, [1] but copper typically has the larger proportion, generally 66% copper and 34% zinc.

  3. List of copper alloys - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_copper_alloys

    Of the large number of different types, the best known traditional types are bronze, where tin is a significant addition, and brass, using zinc instead. Both of these are imprecise terms. Latten is a further term, mostly used for coins with a very high copper content.

  4. Brass threepence - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brass_threepence

    The brass alloy used for the new threepence was 79 percent copper, 20 percent zinc and 1 percent nickel. A similar alloy, with tin substituted for nickel, was already in use for coining colonial issues, but the nickel was added for hardness, and the alloy for colonial issues soon altered.

  5. Gilding metal - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilding_metal

    Gilding metal is used for various purposes, including the jackets of bullets, driving bands on some artillery shells, [3] as well as enameled badges and other jewellery. The sheet is widely used for craft metalworking by hammer working. [1] It is also used particularly as a lower-cost training material for silversmiths.

  6. Corinthian bronze - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corinthian_bronze

    Corinthian bronze, also named Corinthian brass, aes Corinthiacum, or Grilver was a metal alloy in classical antiquity. It is thought to be an alloy of copper with gold or silver (or both), although it has also been contended that it was simply a very high grade of bronze , or a kind of bronze that was manufactured in Corinth . [ 1 ]

  7. Bell metal - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_metal

    Cannon made of bell metal at Malik-e-Maidan, Bijapur, India. Bell metal or bell bronze is an alloy used for making bells and related instruments, such as cymbals.It is a form of bronze with a higher tin content than most other bronzes, usually in approximately a 4:1 ratio of copper to tin (typically, 78% copper, 22% tin by mass).

  8. AOL

    search.aol.com

    The search engine that helps you find exactly what you're looking for. Find the most relevant information, video, images, and answers from all across the Web.

  9. Brass instrument - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brass_instrument

    Brass instrument piston valves Piston valve Rotary valve Slide. Valves are used to change the length of tubing of a brass instrument allowing the player to reach the notes of various harmonic series. Each valve pressed diverts the air stream through additional tubing, individually or in conjunction with other valves.

  1. Ad

    related to: used brass