If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. A group of researchers has discovered that a special metallic alloy consisting of ...

It was found that some brasses were harder than any of the metals composing them, and strange to relate, this hardness is due to the softer metal—the zinc. Thus an alloy of zinc 50, copper 49 ...

Many pure metals are too soft for many uses. They can be made harder by adding another element to the pure metal, so forming an alloy. This explains why an alloy often has more uses than the pure ...

Steel with this combination of performance usually contains significant amounts of tungsten, cobalt, or nickel, which are amongst the most expensive alloying elements. Moreover, tungsten is difficult ...