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Phosphorus Bronzes

A great point of tin. In the employment of cadmium, struction of bronzes, by the addition of a small care must be taken not to subject it to a heat high enough to volatilize it. To avoid this danger , it is best to unite the other metals first, and then add the cadmium at a heat sufficient to melt it. The great objection to this metal is its expensiveness. percentage of phosphorus, although the precise function of this substance has no hitherto well understood. According to Levi not been and Kunzel , however, one cause of the inferiority in bronze consists in the constant presence of traces of tin in the state of an