Ethnographic Arms & Armour - View Single Post - More information about so called Broa sword

Jeff Pringle · 9th February 2010, 03:20 PM

Excellent, Sidney - take the bull by the horns and run with it!

I wonder if the variation in copper alloy colors could be due in part to dezincification, where oxidiation preferentially removes the non-copper alloy elements?

9th February 2010, 03:20 PM	#13
Jeff Pringle Member Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 189	Excellent, Sidney - take the bull by the horns and run with it! I wonder if the variation in copper alloy colors could be due in part to dezincification, where oxidiation preferentially removes the non-copper alloy elements?