Micrograph 517 and full record
- Micrograph no
- 517
- Brief description
- Gun metal bronze displaying coring.
- Keywords
- alloy , bronze , copper, coring , metal, porosity , tin
- Categories
- Metal or alloy
- System
- Cu-Sn
- Composition
- Cu 88, Sn 8, Zn 4 (wt% approx)
- Standard codes
- Reaction
- Processing
- Chill cast
- Applications
- Sample preparation
- Ferric chloride
- Technique
- Reflected light microscopy
- Length bar
- 400 μm
- Further information
- An alloy of bronze containing zinc. Some porosity is visible. The variation in colour is attributable to the cooling being rapid enough to prevent solid state diffusion and hence a concentration variation appears.
- Contributor
- Dr R F Cochrane
- Organisation
- Department of Materials, University of Leeds
- Date
- 04/09/02
- Licence for re-use
- Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
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