Talk:Bronze
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Why have a category box for jewelry but not for alloys/metallurgy? = edit
Why is there a category bot thing at the bottom for jewelry but not for alloys or metallurgy? I don't know the right way to add it yet but it seems strange. DaveShack (talk) 22:29, 15 September 2018 (UTC)
Genesis 4:22 edit
In the article's History section, should there be a mention of the passage, "And as for Zillah, she also bore Tubal-Cain, an instructor of every craftsman in bronze and iron." Bob Enyart, Denver KGOV radio host (talk) 21:52, 10 September 2017 (UTC)
- Only if we also include, in the History section, the third Age of Man, which was the Bronze Age (following the Silver Age and preceding the Heroic Age), of which age the humans thereof were made by Zeus from ash trees, and had bronze armour. :P Firejuggler86 (talk) 01:14, 1 March 2021 (UTC)
- I'm not sure why the inclusion of one would necessitate the inclusion of the other, but TBH I don't see why we couldn't mention both that it appears in a biblical account and that it is mentioned in Greek mythos. That many ancient peoples found bronze to be important enough to include in their own narratives about the world seems relevant to the history section. It's not like by saying that it appears in Genesis, we have to be saying with Wikipedia's voice that the Genesis narrative is true. JMM12345 (talk) 15:44, 5 April 2021 (UTC)JMM12345
"the largest ancient bronze ever found" edit
Under the Etymology section, there's a picture of an ancient Chinese bronze artifact and the caption has a section that reads like "the largest ancient bronze ever found". The largest ancient bronze what? Artifact? Just reads a little funny is all. Cornellbob (talk) 00:21, 26 March 2021 (UTC)
- An artwork made of bronze is "a bronze". However, as stated the claim was nowhere near true & I have changed it. Johnbod (talk) 00:32, 26 March 2021 (UTC)
- @Johnbod: See my edit today. Is that what you intended? Paul August ☎ 23:11, 1 June 2021 (UTC)
- Well, not really. It appears to be the heaviest Chinese ritual bronze, per a reference at the article on the piece. Johnbod (talk) 03:15, 2 June 2021 (UTC)
- OK, I've reverted myself, but the way you had left here it read "the Chinese ritual bronze ever found" Paul August ☎ 10:44, 2 June 2021 (UTC)
- Well, not really. It appears to be the heaviest Chinese ritual bronze, per a reference at the article on the piece. Johnbod (talk) 03:15, 2 June 2021 (UTC)
- @Johnbod: See my edit today. Is that what you intended? Paul August ☎ 23:11, 1 June 2021 (UTC)
Should mention Bronze as intermetallics. edit
Tin is not "dissolved in Copper." Intermetallic compounds Cu5Sn6 and Cu3Sn dissolved in Copper. In fact the hardest Bronze, Bell metal, corresponds to Cu3Sn proportion. TaylorLeem (talk) 18:11, 28 November 2021 (UTC)
Ambiguity regarding percentages edit
The article mentions percentages several times. Do those percentages refer to % in mass or % in volume? Being copper and tin solids at ambient temperature, with a well defined density, it seems to me that the proportions are not completely clear and this could lead to some confusions. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.5.3.135 (talk) 00:09, 15 November 2022 (UTC)