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Exploring Bronze: A Quiz on Copper Alloys and Their History

Test your knowledge on bronze, its history, and its properties with this engaging quiz. Explore the significance of copper alloys and their applications throughout history.

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1 The cost of copper-base alloys is generally higher than that of steels but lower than that of ________-base alloys.

2 In Europe, the major source for tin was Great Britain's deposits of ore in ________, which were traded as far as Phoenicia in the Eastern Mediterranean.

3 Tools, weapons, armor, and various ________, like decorative tiles, made of bronze were harder and more durable than their stone and copper ("Chalcolithic") predecessors.

4 The word Bronze is believed to be cognate with the Italian: bronzo and German: brunst, perhaps ultimately taken from the Persian word birinj ("bronze") or possibly from the Latin name of the city of ________ (aes Brundusinum -Pliny).

5 According to a legend (on the Zildjian cymbals website), in 1623, an Armenian man in Turkey named ________, an alchemist, was attempting to form base metals into gold.

6 It is hard and brittle, and it was particularly significant in antiquity, giving its name to the ________.

7 Bronze resists ________ (especially seawater corrosion) and metal fatigue more than steel and is also a better conductor of heat and electricity than most steels.

8 Initially bronze was made out of copper and ________ to form arsenic bronze.

9 The earliest tin-alloy bronzes date to the late 4th millennium BC in Susa (________) and some ancient sites in Luristan (Iran) and Mesopotamia (Iraq).

10 [6] Copper-based alloys have lower ________ than steel or iron, and are more readily produced from their constituent metals.

💡 Interesting Facts

  • the silver hand and bronze foot of Saint Melor were said to miraculously work as if they were natural appendages.
  • the statue The Naked Truth, in Compton Hill Reservoir Park, was made of bronze instead of white marble to deemphasize the nudity.
  • the largest known metal vessel from antiquity is an elaborately decorated bronze volute krater (pictured) discovered at the Vix Grave in Burgundy, France in 1953.
  • the nipples of the Ancient Greek statue Victorious Youth (pictured) were cast in copper to contrast with the bronze of the torso.
  • a substantially complete Greek bronze Apoxyomenos, or representation of an athlete, was recovered off the Croatian island of Lošinj in 1999.
  • Tokugawa coinage (pictured) in Medieval Japan used a triple monetary standard, with gold, silver and bronze coins, each with their own denominations.
  • a bronze bowl from the Iron Age Glastonbury Lake Village was made from the remnants of two separate vessels, before it was deposited in the peat.
  • Fala, Franklin D. Roosevelt's beloved Scottish terrier and one of the most famous presidential pets, has a bronze statue in his likeness at the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial.
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