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Yellow Dipping-metal

Copper 32 pounds, zinc 2 pounds, soft solder 2 1/3 ounces. For soft-solder mixture, See SOLDER. See DIPPING. Yellow Iron Pyrites, or Sulphuret of Iron, is brass-yellow in color; occurs crystallized, capillary, massive, disseminated, and cellular; it is hard, brittle, and lustrous. This sulphuret is often very beautiful, having crystals, resembling burnished gold, from the size of a small grain up to two inches diameter. Fusible, with a strong odor of sulphur, into a magnetic globule. Composition: iron 47.85, sulphur 52.15; specific gravity 4.8. See SULPHUR.