English English Glossary - Brass

Hello, Blog readers!

Today, we'll comment about the highlighted material over the whole Integrator Project course: the brass.

Picture 1. Connections made out of brass.
Source: ENDUTEK: Conexões e mangueiras. Available at: <http://www.endutek.com.br/conexoes-de-latao.asp?m=conexoes>. Accessed in out. 04 2015.

The brass, as described by the Oxford Dictionary©, is a yellow copper zinc alloy. Accordingly to Callister (2007), it is a copper alloy "where the zinc, as impurity specks, is the main element of the alloy. [...] The common uses revolve around Bijou, ammunition cartridge capsules, automotive radiators, musical instruments, electronic component boards and coins".

The brass translation and utilization tends to be very specific. That points to the fact it's a technical word, not so much used; therefore, do not possess as many synonymous in counterpart of the most used.

We hope this post could be informative. Until next week!

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Solarium Engineering Team.