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Brass
(redirected from Yellow brass)

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Brass
An alloy of copper and zinc. It has low friction and so is used in manufactured products such as gears and valves. It is also used in musical instruments.. It may be traded as a commodity on exchanges such as the London Metal Exchange.


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Piad produces parts for a wide range of applications, from a nickel-aluminum-bronze wear pad for the boom extension arm of a mobile aerial work platform (converted from a fabrication of six steel plates) to a yellow brass adapter for a power pallet truck (converted from a 13-piece aluminum fabrication).
My putter, the Titleist Bulls Eye, with its familiar flanged blade fashioned out of yellow brass and a teardrop-shaped scoop behind the shaft.
The company's newest facility is in Tianjin in northern China, while its Ningbo facility specializes in handling motors, red metals shredder pickings and yellow brass scrap to serve that area's massive red metals industry.
 
 
 
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