Re: telling bronze from brass
From: Terry Harper (Terry.Harper_at_btinternet.com)
Date: 06/22/04
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Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 07:35:29 +0000 (UTC)
"Ross" <rquoll@keypoint.com.au> wrote in message
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> Is there any reliable way to tell if an article (such as a bell) is made
of
> brass or bronze, without the use of specialised lab facilities? The issue
> is important for the many thousands of collectables and antiquities on the
> market, since bronze is much more expensive.
>
> Chemistry: Is there a test which is simple enough to use as "kitchen
> chemistry" and sensitive enough to use when one can't cut or file off a
> sample?
Not without taking a sample and dissolving it in nitric acid, then following
the traditional group analysis methods.
-- Terry Harper http://www.terry.harper.btinternet.co.uk/
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