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Bronze

#Bronze

1 The cost of copper-base alloys is generally higher than that of steels but lower than that of ________-base alloys.

2 In Europe, the major source for tin was Great Britain's deposits of ore in ________, which were traded as far as Phoenicia in the Eastern Mediterranean.

3 Tools, weapons, armor, and various ________, like decorative tiles, made of bronze were harder and more durable than their stone and copper ("Chalcolithic") predecessors.

4 The word Bronze is believed to be cognate with the Italian: bronzo and German: brunst, perhaps ultimately taken from the Persian word birinj ("bronze") or possibly from the Latin name of the city of ________ (aes Brundusinum -Pliny).

5 According to a legend (on the Zildjian cymbals website), in 1623, an Armenian man in Turkey named ________, an alchemist, was attempting to form base metals into gold.

6 It is hard and brittle, and it was particularly significant in antiquity, giving its name to the ________.

7 Bronze resists ________ (especially seawater corrosion) and metal fatigue more than steel and is also a better conductor of heat and electricity than most steels.

8 Initially bronze was made out of copper and ________ to form arsenic bronze.

9 The earliest tin-alloy bronzes date to the late 4th millennium BC in Susa (________) and some ancient sites in Luristan (Iran) and Mesopotamia (Iraq).

10 [6] Copper-based alloys have lower ________ than steel or iron, and are more readily produced from their constituent metals.

💡 Interesting Facts

  • the silver hand and bronze foot of Saint Melor were said to miraculously work as if they were natural appendages?
  • the statue The Naked Truth, in Compton Hill Reservoir Park, was made of bronze instead of white marble to deemphasize the nudity?
  • the largest known metal vessel from antiquity is an elaborately decorated bronze volute krater (pictured) discovered at the Vix Grave in Burgundy, France in 1953?
  • the nipples of the Ancient Greek statue Victorious Youth (pictured) were cast in copper to contrast with the bronze of the torso?
  • a substantially complete Greek bronze Apoxyomenos, or representation of an athlete, was recovered off the Croatian island of Lošinj in 1999?
  • Tokugawa coinage (pictured) in Medieval Japan used a triple monetary standard, with gold, silver and bronze coins, each with their own denominations?
  • a bronze bowl from the Iron Age Glastonbury Lake Village was made from the remnants of two separate vessels, before it was deposited in the peat?
  • Fala, Franklin D. Roosevelt's beloved Scottish terrier and one of the most famous presidential pets, has a bronze statue in his likeness at the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial?
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