Bronze | Wikipedia audio article
Channel: wikipedia tts
Date: 2019-05-07

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronze


00:01:28 1 Etymology
00:02:29 2 History
00:05:13 2.1 Transition to iron
00:06:19 3 Composition
00:09:25 4 Properties
00:11:32 5 Uses
00:14:29 5.1 Sculptures
00:16:36 5.2 Mirrors
00:17:36 5.3 Musical instruments
00:20:16 5.4 Coins and medals



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Bronze is a 80+% copper alloy and 90+% copper&tin alloy (commonly 12–12.5% tin) with often the addition of other metals, such as aluminium, manganese, nickel or zinc, and sometimes non-metals or metalloids such as arsenic, phosphorus or silicon. These additions produce a range of alloys that may be harder than copper alone, or have other useful properties, such as stiffness, ductility, or machinability.
The archeological period in which bronze was the hardest metal in widespread use is known as the Bronze Age. The beginning of the Bronze Age in India and western Eurasia is conventionally dated to the mid-4th millennium BC, and to the early 2nd millennium BC in China; everywhere it gradually spread across regions.  The Bronze Age was followed by the Iron Age starting from about 1300 BC and reaching most of Eurasia by about 500 BC, although bronze continued to be much more widely used than it is in modern times.
Because historical pieces were often made of brasses (copper and zinc) and bronzes with different compositions, modern museum and scholarly descriptions of older objects increasingly use the more inclusive term "copper alloy" instead.