With what element is copper alloyed to make brass?
1 Answer
Mar 2, 2017
Brass is an alloy of copper and zinc............
Explanation:
The most important application of brass depends on the fact that you cannot make a spark when you hit brass metal objects together. And thus brass is extensively used for gas fittings. Why should this non-sparking property be important in this application?
Brass is an extremely workable metal, and this allows another important application: the manufacture of brass musical instruments, basses, cornets, horns, trombones...........