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HISTORY OF METALLURGY
DEFINITION OF TERMS
MACFABRO, 2015
Balkan Region
6500 to 4500 BC
Chalcolithic period
transition to bronze age
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nDiscovery
n Oxide
n Objects
Bronze Age
n Copper-arsenic
alloys
with superior properties
to copper in cast and
wrought form
n 1
to 7 % As, up to 3% Sn
n Bronze
n Middle
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Cast Iron
n Pioneered
by the
Chinese as early as 5th
century BC
n Iron
Pagoda of Yuquan
Temple
n Almost
n 21.28
Biringuccio
(1480 to c.1539)
n De
La Pirotechnia
(Concerning
Pyrotechnics)
n Contained
equipment
illustrations, with clear
and practical instructions
for mining, smelting and
metalworking, assay
methods, metal casting
m tall
n Georgius
Agricola (1494
to 1555)
n De
n Includes
prospecting,
surveying, crushing,
concentration and
assaying methods