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Definition of Low brass
1. Noun. Brass with 30% (or less) zinc.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Low Brass
Literary usage of Low brass
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Engineering Office Systems and Methods: Together with Schedules and by John Percival Davies (1915)
"Brass: whether "High" or "Low" quality (low brass contains a larger percentage
of copper); whether hard or soft temper; or state service for which sheet is ..."
2. Engineering Office Systems and Methods: Together with Schedules and by John Percival Davies (1915)
"Brass: whether "High" or "Low" quality (low brass contains a larger percentage
of copper); whether hard or soft temper; or state service for which sheet is ..."
3. Metallography by Samuel Leslie Hoyt (1921)
"low brass contains from 55 to 63 per cent, copper and is used for extruding and
hot rolling. The commonest of these mixtures is one with 60 per cent, ..."
4. Practical Dental Metallurgy: A Text and Reference Book for Students and by Joseph Dupuy Hodgen (1918)
"The brass trade classes brass as (1) high brass, (2) low brass, ... low brass is
softer and has more stretch. It is used for drawing and spinning. and for ..."
5. Aluminum and Aluminum Alloys in the Form of Ingots, Castings, Bars, Plates by Aluminum Company of America, Alfred Ephraim Hunt (1897)
"The terms "high brass" and ''low brass" are used in the trade but applied ...
low brass " ranges from 75 per cent, to 88 per cent, copper and 25 per cent, ..."
6. A Course of Instruction in Elementary Machine Design: Arranged for Students by James David Hoffman (1906)
"In the brasses, the color usually designates the quality; high brass, yellow;
low brass, red. The first shows low copper and high zinc or tin, ..."
7. Marine Engineers' Handbook by Frank Ward Sterling (1920)
"This system consists of transmitters connected by low brass wire and ... Due to
the spring action of these devices, low brass wire is not suitable and ..."
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