Mixed Metals: Or, Metallic Alloys |
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... colour , which gives it its value . Copper was used by the ancients for many of the purposes to which it is put by the moderns . The alloys of copper with tin were used in various proportions , thus : bronze for statues was composed of ...
... colour , which gives it its value . Copper was used by the ancients for many of the purposes to which it is put by the moderns . The alloys of copper with tin were used in various proportions , thus : bronze for statues was composed of ...
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... colour- less gas , about the same weight as air , extremely poisonous , and burns in air or oxygen with a blue flame producing carbonic acid , and evolving considerable heat . The com- bustible gas formed in gas - producers is chiefly ...
... colour- less gas , about the same weight as air , extremely poisonous , and burns in air or oxygen with a blue flame producing carbonic acid , and evolving considerable heat . The com- bustible gas formed in gas - producers is chiefly ...
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... colour ; is highly malleable , ductile , tough , and tenacious ; it melts at about 1100 ° C. , is not sensibly ... colour . It readily unites with oxygen at a red heat , forming one or both of the two oxides , known respectively as black ...
... colour ; is highly malleable , ductile , tough , and tenacious ; it melts at about 1100 ° C. , is not sensibly ... colour . It readily unites with oxygen at a red heat , forming one or both of the two oxides , known respectively as black ...
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... colour , shows a finely - granular fractured surface when broken , and has a metallic lustre . Phosphorus is highly injurious to copper when allowed to remain in it , but a small quantity may , under certain circum- stances , exert a ...
... colour , shows a finely - granular fractured surface when broken , and has a metallic lustre . Phosphorus is highly injurious to copper when allowed to remain in it , but a small quantity may , under certain circum- stances , exert a ...
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... colour with a brilliant lustre ; is devoid of taste or odour when pure ; at a temperature of 360 ° it boils , and at 39.4 ° C. it solidifies , forming a soft , white , malleable mass , exhibiting a granular structure on the freshly ...
... colour with a brilliant lustre ; is devoid of taste or odour when pure ; at a temperature of 360 ° it boils , and at 39.4 ° C. it solidifies , forming a soft , white , malleable mass , exhibiting a granular structure on the freshly ...
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acid added alloys containing aluminium amalgam annealing antimony arsenic bells bismuth brass Britannia metal brittle bronze cadmium carbon cast cast-iron cent copper cent of copper charcoal chemical choidal colour combination composition consists constituents cooling copper copper and tin crucible crystalline ductile elasticity employed Fcap flux following table fracture furnace fused fusible alloys German silver granular gray grayish Guettier gun-metal hammer hard harder impurities ingot iron lead liquid lustre malleable Mallet manganese manufacture melting point mercury mixed mixture molten metal mould nickel nitric acid obtained ordinary oxide oxidising oxygen phosphor-bronze phosphorus plate platinum polish poured powder prepared present produced Professor properties proportions pure readily red heat remelted resistance reverberatory furnace rolled sand silicate slag small quantity soft solder solidifying specific gravity square inch steel sulphide sulphur surface temperature tenacity thick Tombac toughness wire yellow zinc
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