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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

T'ang burial figures, carved jades, Hawthorn jars, gold, bronze and ivory figures, in all about 3,000 pieces bought for Britain this month at a cost of �100,000 from a faun-faced elderly Greek named George Eumorfopoulos.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Egypt will go treasures of Cairo Museum and the Khedivial library, from Russia famed silver, gold, bronze Sassanian� vessels.

From Time Magazine Archive

On his breast he wore a brooch of gold bronze; carbuncles and precious stones were set in the bronze, and it was carved all over with many spiral devices.

From The Coming of Cuculain by O'Grady, Standish