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Red Tombac

Put into a crucioxide, and renders the alloy much more per The addition of phosphorus reduces this fect, improving its color, its tenacity, and all properties. elasticity is much augmented, and its resistfracture resembles more that of steel, its The grain of its doubled. Its durability is greater, and, when to pressure sometimes more than melted, it is of greater fluidity, and fills the mould in its finest details.

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