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Definition of Silicon bronze
1. Noun. A bronze with 2-3% silicon that is resistant to corrosion.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Silicon Bronze
Literary usage of Silicon bronze
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Scientific American Cyclopedia of Formulas: Partly Based Upon the 28th by Albert Allis Hopkins (1910)
"silicon bronze.—Silicon, similarly to phosphorus, acts as a deoxidizing agent,
and the bronzes produced under its influence are very ductile and elastic, ..."
2. Materials of Construction: Their Manufacture and Properties by Adelbert Philo Mills (1922)
"Silicon. Bronze. Silicon added to ordinary bronzes has about the same ...
Aside from its electrical conductivity, silicon bronze possesses mbst of the ..."
3. The Materials of Engineering by Robert Henry Thurston (1884)
"Use of Silicon-Bronze.—The superiority of silicon is claimed to be due to ...
It is said of silicon-bronze, that it possesses the conducting qualities of ..."
4. Cassier's Magazine edited by [Anonymus AC02877163] (1903)
"Silicon-bronze, of relatively high resistance, requiring 2.17 times the section
and weight ... But the price of silicon-bronze is equal to, or greater than, ..."
5. The Mechanical Engineer's Pocket-book: A Reference-book of Rules, Tables by William Kent (1902)
"A 3£ silicon bronze has a tensile strength, in a casting, ... In using silicon,
either as a flux or for making silicon bronze, the rich alloy of silicon and ..."
6. Telephone Lines and Their Properties by William John Hopkins (1901)
"Within the last few years much attention has been devoted to the manufacture of
silicon-bronze and aluminium-bronze wires. The properties of bronze wire ..."
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