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| x Titanium Alloy 6-4 | Titanium | 90 % |
The most common titanium alloy. An alpha-beta alloy, it is hardenable by heat treatment.Used for applications requiring excellent fracture toughness and fatigue strength such as aircraft, structural components, blades, discs, rings, airframes,...
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| Aluminium | 6 % | ||||
| Vanadium | 4 % | ||||
| Oxygen | 0.2 % | ||||
| Iron | 0.25 % | ||||
| x Stainless Steel Alloy 304 |
The most common grade; of stainless steel. ISO 3506.
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| x Stainless Steel Alloy 316 |
The second most common alloy of stainless, after 304. It is a particularly rust-free austenitic chromium-nickel alloy, since addition of molybdenum prevents specific forms of corrosion. ISO 3506
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| x Stainless Steel Alloy 430 | |||||
| x Stainless Steel Alloy 409 | |||||
| x Stainless Steel Alloy 17-4 | |||||
| x Monel 400 | |||||
| x Monel 500 | |||||
| x Inconel 600 | |||||
| x Invar |
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Invar, also known generically as FeNi36 (64FeNi in the US), is a nickel steel alloy notable for its uniquely low coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE or α). It was invented in 1896 by Swiss scientist Charles Édouard Guillaume. He received the Nobel...
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| x Aluminum Alloy 2024 | Aluminium | 90.7 % | 94.7 % |
General 2024 characteristics and uses (from Alcoa): Good machinability and surface finish capabilities. A high strength material of adequate workability. Has largely superseded 2017 for structural applications. Used in aircraft fittings, gears and...
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| Copper | 3.8 % | 4.9 % | |||
| Magnesium | 1.2 % | 1.8 % | |||
| Manganese | 0.3 % | 0.9 % | |||
| Iron | 0 % | 0.5 % | |||
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| x Aluminum Alloy 6061 | |||||
| x Aluminum Alloy 7075 | |||||
| x Yellow Brass | |||||
| x Beryllium Copper Alloy 17200 | |||||
| x Beryllium Copper Alloy 17510 | |||||
| x Beryllium Copper Alloy 17000 | |||||
| x ToughMet Alloy 2CX |
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| x ToughMet Alloy 3CX |
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| x ToughMet Alloy 3AT | |||||
| x Titanium (commercially pure) | Titanium | 99.1 % |
Commonly used for airframe skins, heat exchangers, cryogenic vessels, components for CPI equipment, condenser tubing, exhaust pipe shrouds.
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| Oxygen | 0.35 % | ||||
| Iron | 0.3 % | ||||
| Carbon | 0.1 % | ||||
| Hydrogen | 0.01 % | ||||
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| x Mu-metal |
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Mu-metal is a nickel-iron alloy (approximately 75% nickel, 15% iron, plus copper and molybdenum) that has very high magnetic permeability. The high permeability makes mu-metal very effective at screening static or low-frequency magnetic fields,...
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| x Gilding metal |
Gilding metal is a copper alloy, comprising 95% copper and 5% zinc. Technically, it is a brass.
Gilding metal is used for various purposes, including the jackets of bullets, driving bands on some artillery shells, as well as enamelled badges and...
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| x Prince's metal |
Prince's metal or Prince Rupert's metal is a type of alpha-brass containing 75% copper and 25% zinc. Due to its beautiful yellow color, it is used as an imitation of gold.
The alloy was named in honour of Prince Rupert of the Rhine.
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| x Speculum metal |
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Speculum metal is a very hard white alloy of roughly 75-80% copper and 20-25% tin; some compositions contained 1–2% of arsenic. Composition with 45% tin has more resistance to tarnishing.
For reflection, the composition needs to be copper 68.21%,...
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| x Babbitt metal |
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Babbitt metal, also called white metal, is an alloy used to provide the bearing surface in a plain bearing. It was invented in 1839 by Isaac Babbitt in Taunton, Massachusetts, USA. The term is used today to describe a series of alloys used as a...
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| x Bell metal |
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Bell metal is a hard alloy used for making bells. It is a form of bronze, usually approximately 3:1 ratio of copper to tin (78% copper, 22% tin). Bell metal ore is a sulfide of tin, copper, and iron; and the mineral stannite.
In India, in the states...
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| x Rose metal |
Rose metal, is also known as ￢ﾀﾜRose's metal￢ﾀﾝ and ￢ﾀﾜRose's alloy￢ﾀﾝ is a fusible alloy with a low melting point. Rose metal consists of 50% Bi (bismuth), 25￢ﾀﾓ28% Pb (lead) and 22￢ﾀﾓ25% Sn (tin); its melting point is 100 ￂﾰC (212 ￂﾰF). Rose metal...
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| x Dutch Metal |
Dutch metal is a form of brass being an alloy of copper, 84% and zinc 16%.
It is very malleable and ductile and can be beaten into very thin sheets. It is these sheets that are sold as Dutch Metal, for use as metal leaf or imitation gold leaf.
The...
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| x Britannia metal |
Britannia metal is a pewter-type alloy favoured for its silvery appearance and smooth surface. The composition is approximately 93% tin, 5% antimony, and 2% copper.
It was first produced in 1769 or 1770, under the name of "Vickers White Metal", by...
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| x Queen's metal |
Queen's Metal, an alloy of nine parts tin and one each of antimony, lead, and bismuth, is intermediate in hardness between pewter and britannia metal. It was developed by English pewtersmiths in the 16th century; the recipe was initially a secret...
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| x Titanium alloy | Titanium | 75 % | 100 % |
Titanium alloys are metallic materials which contain a mixture of titanium and other chemical elements. Such alloys have very high tensile strength and toughness (even at extreme temperatures), light weight, extraordinary corrosion resistance, and...
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| x 6061 aluminium alloy |
6061 is a precipitation hardening aluminium alloy, containing magnesium and silicon as its major alloying elements. It has good mechanical properties and exhibits good weldability. It is one of the most common alloys of aluminium for general purpose...
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| x Aluminium bronze |
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Aluminium bronze is a type of bronze in which aluminium is the main alloying metal added to copper. A variety of aluminium bronzes of differing compositions have found industrial use, with most ranging from 5% to 11% aluminium by weight, the...
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| x Arsenical bronze |
Arsenical bronze is an alloy in which arsenic is added to copper as opposed to, or in addition to other constituent metals. The use of arsenic in bronze, either as the secondary constituent or with another component such as tin, results in a...
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| x Arsenical copper |
Arsenical copper contains up to 0.5% arsenic which, at elevated temperatures, imparts higher tensile strength and a reduced tendency to scaling. It is typically specified in boiler work, especially locomotive fireboxes.
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| x Auricupride |
Auricupride is a natural alloy that combines copper and gold. Its chemical formula is Cu3Au. The alloy crystallizes in the Cubic crystal system and occurs as malleable grains or platey masses. It is an opaque yellow with a reddish tint. It has a...
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| x Benares brass |
Benares Brass is the term used for brassware from Benares (also known as Varanasi, Varenisi or Kaasi} in India.
Benares is a pilgrimage site in India, as it is considered home to Shiva or Visweswara, in Utash Pradesh (Uttar Pradesh State). Benares...
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| x Beryllium copper |
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Beryllium copper, also known as copper beryllium, BeCu or beryllium bronze, is a metal alloy of copper and 0.5 to 3% beryllium, and sometimes with other alloying elements, and has significant metalworking and operating performance qualities....
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| x Brass |
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Brass is any alloy of copper and zinc; the proportions of zinc and copper can be varied to create a range of brasses with varying properties. In comparison, bronze is principally an alloy of copper and tin. Despite this distinction, some types of...
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| x Calamine brass |
Calamine brass is brass produced by a particular alloying technique using calamine, a zinc ore, rather than metallic zinc. Calamine brass was produced using proportions of two-sevenths fine copper, four-sevenths calamine, and one-seventh shruff (old...
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| x William Champion |
William Champion (1709 - 1789) is credited with patenting a process in Great Britain to distill zinc from calamine using charcoal in a smelter.
As came from a family who were already concerned in the metal trade at Bristol, his father being a...
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| x Chinese silver |
Chinese silver is an alloy used for jewelry. Its composition is 58% copper, 17.5% zinc, 11.5% nickel, 11% cobalt, and 2% silver.
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| x Constantan |
Constantan is a copper-nickel alloy usually consisting of 55% copper and 45% nickel. Its main feature is its resistivity which is constant over a wide range of temperatures. Other alloys with similarly low temperature coefficients are known, such as...
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| x Corinthian bronze |
Corinthian bronze, also called Corinthian brass or æs Corinthiacum, was a highly valuable metal alloy in classical antiquity. It is thought to be an alloy of copper with gold or silver (or both), although it has also been contended that it was...
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| x Cunife |
Cunife is an alloy of copper (Cu), nickel (Ni), iron (Fe), and in some cases cobalt (Co). The alloy has the same linear coefficient of expansion as certain types of glass, and thus makes an ideal material for the lead out wires in light bulbs and...
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| x Cuprate |
Cuprates are chemical compounds containing copper oxide. From 1986 to 2008 almost all known high temperature superconductors were cuprate superconductors.
When copper is involved in a coordination complex with an overall negative charge, then the Cu...
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| x Cupronickel |
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Cupronickel (sometimes incorrectly written as "Cupernickel" or "Coppernickel") is an alloy of copper that contains nickel and strengthening elements, such as iron and manganese. Cupronickel is highly resistant to corrosion in seawater, because its...
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| x Cymbal alloys |
Cymbals are made from four main alloys, all of them copper-based. These are: bell bronze, malleable bronze, brass and nickel silver.
Bell bronze, also known as bell metal, is the traditional alloy used for fine cymbals, many gongs and, as the name...
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| x DZR |
DZR (dezincification resistant brass) is an alloy used to make pipe fittings for use with potable water.
Dezincification is a form of dealloying which typically occurs in brass alloys containing more than 15% zinc. The zinc in the brass alloy is...
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| x Devarda's alloy |
Devarda's alloy (CAS # 8049-11-4), is an alloy of aluminium (44% – 46%), copper (49% – 51%) and zinc (4% – 6%).
Devarda's alloy is used as reducing agent in analytical chemistry for the determination of nitrates after their reduction to ammonia...
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| x Florentine bronze |
Florentine bronze is a modern term for an alloy usually formed as a mixture of aluminium or tin (90%). Currently no chemical formula for Florentine bronze has been made as it is an alloy which is not standardised (in proportions)...
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| x Glidcop |
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Glidcop is the registered trademark name of SCM Metal Products, Inc. that refers to a family of copper-based metal matrix composite (MMC) alloys mixed primarily with aluminum oxide ceramic particles. The addition of small amounts of aluminum oxide...
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| x Glucydur |
Glucydur is the trade name of a metal alloy with a low coefficient of thermal expansion, used for making balance wheels and other parts of mechanical watches.
Glucydur is a beryllium bronze; an alloy of beryllium, copper and iron. In addition to its...
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| x Hepatizon |
Hepatizon (Greek etymology: ἧπαρ, English translation: "liver"), also known as Black Corinthian Bronze, was a highly valuable metal alloy in classical antiquity. It is thought to be an alloy of copper with the addition of a small proportion of gold...
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| x Heusler alloy |
A Heusler alloy is a ferromagnetic metal alloy based on a Heusler phase. Heusler phases are intermetallics with particular composition and face-centered cubic crystal structure. They are ferromagnetic—even though the constituting elements are not—as...
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| x ISO 428 |
ISO 428 was an International Organization for Standardization (ISO) standard fully entitled "Wrought Copper-Aluminium Alloys -- Chemical Composition And Forms of Wrought Products", specifying the allowable compositions of various copper-aluminum...
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| x Latten |
The term Latten refers loosely to copper alloys, much like brass, employed in the Middle Ages and through to the late 18th and early 19th Centuries, for items such as decorative effect on borders, rivets or other details of metalwork (particularly...
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| x Manganin |
Manganin is a trademarked name for an alloy of typically 86% copper, 12% manganese, and 2% nickel. It was first developed by Edward Weston in 1892, improving upon his Constantan (1887).
Manganin foil and wire is used in the manufacture of resistors,...
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| x Molybdochalkos |
Molybdochalkos is an alloy of copper and lead. It was known by Greek alchemists as early as the 10th century A.D. The name is related to the root of molybdenum, which was commonly confused for lead at the time.
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