French: bronzeEnglish translation: bronze / brass 
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| GLOSSARY ENTRY (DERIVED FROM QUESTION BELOW) | | French term or phrase: | bronze / laiton | | English translation: | bronze / brass | | Entered by: | Tony M |
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Science - Metallurgy / Casting / alloys | | French term or phrase: bronze | I'm sure this is a really obvious/stupid question, but could someone explain to me the difference, in metallurgical terms, between bronze and brass? (is it about different proportions of copper and alloy materials?)
I'm proofing some work, where the original term (in French) is "bronze" and the translator has written "brass" (in English). Is this correct? Or should it be "bronze" in English as well?
To throw in another (brass!) spanner, what about the French word "laiton"...?
Thank you for your help, all you materials people! |
| | | bronze | Explanation:
They are quite different alloys!
bronze = copper + tin
brass = copper + zinc
Either may have certain proportions of other metals as well, but they are fundamentally different.
laiton = brass |
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 Tony M
France
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| bronze
Explanation:
They are quite different alloys!
bronze = copper + tin
brass = copper + zinc
Either may have certain proportions of other metals as well, but they are fundamentally different.
laiton = brass
| Tony M
France
Native speaker of:  English
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| bronze (see comment)
Explanation:
Most commonly, brass = copper + zinc, bronze = copper + tin ("classical" bronze), also copper + phosphorus, copper + beryllium and other copper alloys. Brass = laiton.
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Note added at 10 mins (2007-03-20 18:36:35 GMT)
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Another French equivalent for brass is tompac.
| Anton Konashenok
Czech Republic
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| bronnze / brass = bronze / laiton
Explanation:
bronze/bronze : Cuivre (>80%) + étain '8-10%) avec parfois un peu de zinc, plomb, nickel
brass/laiton : mélange cuivre (67%) + zinc (33%)
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