This section is from the book "Handcraft In Wood And Metal", by John Hooper, Alfred J. Shirley. Also available from Amazon: Handcraft In Wood And Metal.
When two or more metals are caused permanently to unite the resulting mixture is called an Alloy. The term is also used for similar mixtures of metals and non-metals, such as iron and carbon = steel. The melting-point of an alloy is usually below that of the most easily fusible constituent.
When mercury is one of the metals the mixture is generally known as an amalgam.
It is not necessary in this work to give the names of all the known alloys, as many of them are made for a special purpose or industry, and as these purposes are as varied as the number of alloys it is possible to make, and new combinations of metals are continually being invented, only the more common ones will be dealt with.
The following table gives the alloy and its composition:-
Alloys 1: Their Names and Composition. | Antimony. | Tin. | Zinc. | Lead. | Manganese. | Nickel. | Phosphorus. | Iron. | Gold. | Carbon. | Tungsten. | |||
Aluminium bronze | 95 | 5 | ||||||||||||
Brass | 65 | 35 | ||||||||||||
Britannia metal | 2 | 8 | go | |||||||||||
Bronze | 90 | 10 | ||||||||||||
Delta metal | 56 | 41.61 | 72 | •81 | •013 | •87 | ||||||||
Dutch metal | 80 | 20 | ||||||||||||
German silver . | 46 | 20 | 34 | |||||||||||
Gilding metal | 83 | 17 | ||||||||||||
Gold (standard) . | 8.33 | 91.66 | ||||||||||||
„ solder (best) | 3 | 4 1/2 | 12 1/2 | |||||||||||
Gunmetal . | 9 | 1 | ||||||||||||
Manganese bronze . | 60 | 15 | 25 | |||||||||||
„ steel | 14 | 86 | ||||||||||||
Muntz metal | 62 | 1 | 37 | |||||||||||
Nickel steel | •85 | 25 | 74 | •27 | ||||||||||
Ormolu | 58 | 17 | 25 | |||||||||||
Pewter | 82 | 18 | ||||||||||||
Phosphor bronze | 90 | 9 1/4 | 3 | |||||||||||
Silver (standard) | 7.5 | 92.5 | ||||||||||||
,, solder (best) . | 22 | 14 | 64 | |||||||||||
Spelter (for brazing) . | 50 | 50 | ||||||||||||
Steel (for tools) . | 98 3/4 | 1 1/4 | ||||||||||||
„ (mild, for forging) | 99.85 | •15 | ||||||||||||
Tinman's solder | 2 | I | ||||||||||||
Tungsten steel . | 2 1/2 | 91 1/2 | 1 1/2 | 4 1/2 | ||||||||||
Type metal | 8 | 12 | 16 | 64 |
 
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