Bronze
Alloys · Common · Ancient
The alloy that defined an age. Bronze, roughly 90% copper and 10% tin, was harder, more durable, and easier to cast than either of its components. For nearly two thousand years, it was the premier material for weapons, tools, and art.
Identity
- Source
- Historical alloy: copper and tin
- Made from
- Copper, Tin
- Aliases
- Tin bronze, Bell metal (high-tin variety)
Physical Properties
- Appearance
- Warm reddish-brown to golden, develops a distinctive green patina over centuries
- Luster
- Metallic
- Density
- 8.7 g/cm³
- Melting point
- 950 °C
- Boiling point
- 2300 °C
- Lighter
- Veinstone Metal
- Denser
- Orium
- Magnetism
- Non-magnetic
- Electrical conductivity
- High
Mechanical Properties
- Mohs hardness
- 3.5
- Tensile strength
- 500 MPa
- Softer
- Shakudo
- Harder
- Hepatizon
- Workability
- Easy
- Brittleness
- Moderate
- Malleability
- High
- Ductility
- Moderate
Chemical Properties
- Corrosion resistance
- high
- Reactivity
- low
Lore & Narrative
The Bronze Age collapsed suddenly around 1200 BC in what historians call the Late Bronze Age Collapse, a mysterious cascade of civilizational failures across the Mediterranean. Within decades, the great palace cultures of Mycenae, the Hittites, and Egypt were gone.
- Notable uses
- Weapons, armor, sculpture, bells, coins, bearings
- Forge uses
- weapons, armor, sculpture, bells
- Worldbuilding traits
- Ancient, green-patina, foundational, artistic
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