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单词 red brass
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red brass
red brass n. an alloy consisting chiefly of copper and tin, and having a reddish tint; gunmetal; cf. tombac n. 2.
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1651 J. F. tr. H. C. Agrippa Three Bks. Occult Philos. i. xxvii. 58 These things are Martiall..: Amongst Metals, Iron, and red Brass.
1712 J. Browne tr. P. Pomet et al. Compl. Hist. Druggs II. iii. ii. 364/1 Red Brass melted with some of this Stone becomes as white as Silver.
1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 165 Red brass, the Tombak of some,..consists of more copper and less zinc than go to the composition of brass, being from 2½ to 8 or 10 of the former to 1 of the latter.
1997 Metrop. Mus. Jrnl. 32 92/1 It seems likely that if the 1581 virginal originally employed twisted strings for the short-octave notes, they would have been made of red brass or annealed yellow brass.
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