Have you ever seen a gold-like metal in your home and thought “this can’t be gold”? Well, you were probably right about the metal being “fake gold” (unless you’re really squirreling such a precious metal in your house), but it’s not actually the kind of fake you should disdain. That material is most likely “brass”, another kind of metal that looks like gold because of its shiny, yellowish appearance.
Brass refers to a group of copper-zinc alloys that is used for many architectural, structural, and industrial applications. The history of this metal’s name is unclear but it was believed to be derived from three different terms—the Arabian word Latun, which means copper; the Turkish word Altun, which means gold; and the old English word Braes, which means bronze. Read more from this article: http://bit.ly/2BUzT9A
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