Excerpt from A List of Alloys Prepared by William Campbell for Committee B-2 on Non-Ferrous Metals and Alloys In connection with the activities in the nomenclature of non ferrous metals and alloys of Committee B-2 on N ou-ferrous Metals and Alloys, in order to show the difficulties which are met with when an attempt is made to formulate a logical and scientific classification of alloys, the following list of alloys has been compiled. The subject of nomenclature is one of some difficulty. Brass has been defined as an alloy of copper with zinc as the principal alloying metal, whereas bronze is a copper alloy in which tin is the chief added element, and yet it is the custom to call red brass by the name of bronze. Again, Tobin bronze, manganese bronze, etc., are, properly speaking, brasses. While this list is primarily one of non-ferrous alloys, there have been added a few examples of what are, properly speaking, iron alloys (in contra-distinction to steel) in which the properties are dependent on the added elements, as, for example, in the list of non-corrosive alloys and of the heat-resisting alloys as well as those used for resist ance purposes. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.