Copper Alloys List

This is a list of copper alloys or alloys in which copper is usually the base metal.

• Arsenical copper
• Beryllium copper (beryllium)
• Billon (silver)
• Brass (zinc)
• Calamine brass (zinc)
• Chinese silver (zinc)
• Dutch metal (zinc)
• Gilding metal (zinc)
• Muntz metal (zinc)
• Pinchbeck (zinc)
• Prince's metal (zinc)
• Tombac (zinc)
• Bronze (tin, aluminum or any other element)
• Aluminum bronze (aluminum)
• Arsenical bronze
• Bell metal (tin)
• Florentine bronze (aluminum or tin)
• Glucydur
• Guani­n
• Gunmetal (tin, zinc)
• Phosphor bronze (tin and phosphorus)
• Ormolu (Gilt Bronze) (zinc)
• Speculum metal (tin)
• Constantan (nickel)
• Copper-tungsten (tungsten)
• Corinthian bronze (gold, silver)
• Cunife (nickel, iron)
• Cupronickel (nickel)
• Cymbal alloys (Bell metal) (tin)
• Devarda's alloy (aluminum, zinc)
• Electrum (gold, silver)
• Hepatizon (gold, silver)
• Heusler alloy (manganese, tin)
• Manganin (manganese, nickel)
• Nickel silver (nickel)
• Nordic gold (aluminum, zinc, tin)
• Shakudo (gold)
• Tumbaga (gold)

Through the 18th and 19th century, a copper alloy was called latten. Usually, latten referred to brass or bronze. However, sometimes latten referred to a lead alloy, tin plating on iron, or any metal prepared as a thin sheet. For this reason, copper alloys are known by more specific names today.

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