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aluminum bronze

American  

noun

  1. any of several alloys containing a high percentage of copper with from 5 to 11 percent aluminum and varying amounts of iron, nickel, manganese, and other elements.


Etymology

Origin of aluminum bronze

First recorded in 1870–80

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They’re created using aluminum, bronze and steel with some sculptures mounted on stone bases, the release says.

From Washington Times Jun. 4, 2022

Honey, of course, is brass that is “free of manganese-bronze, aluminum bronze, unsweated radiators or radiator parts, iron, and excessively dirty and corroded materials.”

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 29, 2016

Sparklers of aluminum bronze which throws off incandescent but quick-cooling particles as it burns, were invented for children.

From Time Magazine Archive

Glass is now going to war in a big way as a replacement for copper, aluminum, bronze, other scarce metals.

From Time Magazine Archive

Aluminum is used largely in the manufacture of cheap jewelry by making a hard, gold-colored alloy with copper, called aluminum bronze, consisting of 90 per cent. of copper and 10 per cent. of aluminum.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 362, December 9, 1882 by Various

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