arsenical bronze

English

Noun

arsenical bronze (countable and uncountable, plural arsenical bronzes)

  1. A natural alloy of tin consisting of a small amount of arsenic, of a better quality than pure copper.
    Oetzi the Iceman's axe was of arsenical bronze.
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