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Engineering Materials Technology, 2nd Edition
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Engineering Materials Technology, 2nd Edition

by William Bolton
October 2013
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
468 pages
20h 15m
English
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Structure of alloys
3.1 Alloys
Brass is an alloy composed of copper and zinc. Bronze is an alloy of copper and
tin. An
alloy
is a metallic material consisting of an intimate association of two or
more elements. The everyday metallic objects around you will be made almost
invariably from alloys rather than the pure metals themselves. Pure metals do
not always have the appropriate combination of properties needed; alloys can
however be designed to have them.
If you put sand in water, the sand does not react with the water but retains its
density, as does the water. The sand in water is said to be a mixture, In a
mixture, each component retain ...
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ISBN: 9781483141077