Definition of High brass

1. Noun. Brass with 35% zinc.

Generic synonyms: Brass

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Literary usage of High brass

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Practical Dental Metallurgy: A Text and Reference Book for Students and by Joseph Dupuy Hodgen (1918)
"high brass is the most extensively used, and is known as "common brass." It carries from 61 to 70 per cent of copper, the remainder being zinc. ..."

2. The Copper Handbook by Horace Jared Stevens, Walter Harvey Weed (1910)
"The proportions of the two metals vary greatly, ranging lip to equal quantities, in the case of very high brass. Ordinary high bras> i-, emn|>osed of two ..."

3. Transactions of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and (1903)
"The hot-working qualities of high-brass, paradoxical as it may seem, do not appear to bo much affected by the presence of tellurium ; a marked contrast to ..."

4. Review of American Chemical Research by Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Arthur Amos Noyes, William Albert Noyes (1900)
"As a basis for the experiments, the author chose a high brass containing 60 per ... For the experiments a high brass of 60 percent, copper and 40 per cent, ..."

5. Elements of Machine Design by Oscar Adolph Leutwiler (1917)
"For high brass, S, varies from 10000 to 20000 pounds per ... For high brass and phosphor bronze E = 14000000. For high brass and phosphor bronze E, ..."

6. Elements of Machine Design by Oscar Adolph Leutwiler (1917)
"The allowable working stresses and coefficients of elasticity for phosphor bronze and high brass spring stock are not well- established, and in the absence ..."

7. Technology Quarterly and Proceedings of the Society of Arts by Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Society of Arts (1900)
"As a basis for the experiments, the author chose a high brass containing 60 per ... For the experiments a high brass of 60 percent, copper and 40 per cent, ..."

8. Foundry Practice: A Text Book for Molders, Students and Apprentices by Reginald Heber Palmer (1911)
"Thus, between cartridge brass with 3.3MI per cent zinc and common high brass with J8K per cent zinc, there are any number of different mixtures known ..."

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