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aluminium bronze

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noun

  1. any of a range of copper alloys that contain between 5 and 10 per cent aluminium

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Its use has thus been restricted to light apparatus and aluminium bronze, an alloy of Cu 90, Al 10, which is not unlike gold in appearance.

From An Introduction to Chemical Science by Williams, Rufus Phillips

I have had no experience with the aluminium bronze screen.

From Getting Gold: a practical treatise for prospectors, miners and students by Johnson, J. C. F. (Joseph Colin Frances)

A long tube covered with aluminium bronze lights when held in one hand—the other touching the terminal of the coil—quite powerfully.

From Experiments with Alternate Currents of High Potential and High Frequency by Tesla, Nikola

Screens of different materials and with different orifices are used; the materials comprise wire cloth of brass or steel, tough Russian sheet iron, English tinned plate, and, quite recently, aluminium bronze.

From Getting Gold: a practical treatise for prospectors, miners and students by Johnson, J. C. F. (Joseph Colin Frances)

A plaster cast is taken of the sole while the foot is held in its proper position, and on this a metal plate, preferably of aluminium bronze, is modelled.

From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Miles, Alexander

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