arsenical bronze

English

Noun

arsenical bronze (countable and uncountable, plural arsenical bronzes)

  1. A natural and artificial alloy of copper containing a small amount of arsenic, that oxidates less than pure copper and was widely used during the chalcolithic period.
    Oetzi the Iceman's axe was of arsenical bronze.

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