What You Need to Know about Copper Alloys before Using a Brass Angle or Bar for Your Project

When copper was discovered some 10,000 years ago, its potentials were initially belittled, so much so that man decided to mix it with other metals, such as tin and zinc, in the hopes of creating much stronger metals. True enough, they were able to produce two of the most prominent metals of all time—bronze and brass. In fact, one of them—bronze—became so widely used that an entire era was named after it. But why are they so popular? Well, it has to do with their many beneficial properties.

Bronze: Not Always the Third Best

To produce bronze, you only have to mix copper and tin. Some other metals, such as aluminum, manganese, and nickel and non-metals, such as arsenic and phosphorus, are also sometimes added but only in miniscule amounts. The kind and quality of bronze produced greatly depends on the amount of each metal used in the alloy. Typical bronze has about 12 percent tin, 1 to 3 percent of other metals and metalloids, and the rest copper. Read more from this article: http://bit.ly/2G6HTSL