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gold bronze

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noun

  1. an alloy of about 90 percent copper, 5 percent zinc, 3 percent lead, and 2 percent tin.


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The IOC retrospectively awarded gold, bronze and silver to athletes based on their rankings.

From The Guardian Jun. 25, 2012

Depending on the degree of baking, the coated steel turns black, gold, bronze, purple, blue, red or green, the color becoming an integral part of the surface.

From Time Magazine Archive

The pollack was then examined, with all its glories of gold, bronze, and orange.

From Menhardoc by Staniland, C.J.

While looking at that sea of instruments, gleaming beneath the sun in gold, bronze, precious stones, and pearls, it might be imagined that Apollo and Bacchus had set out on a journey through the world.

From Quo Vadis: a narrative of the time of Nero by Curtin, Jeremiah

At some points everything glistened, gleamed, changed into azure, scarlet, gold, bronze, and the various tints of white peculiar to plaster-of-Paris, marble, silk, porcelain.

From The Argonauts by Curtin, Jeremiah

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