yellow copper

English

Noun

yellow copper (uncountable)

  1. (rare) brass
    • 1984, Doreen Bethune-Johnson, Native People and Explorers of Canada, Scarborough, Ont.: Prentice-Hall Canada:
      [One Iroquois guide] also pointed to a dagger handle made of yellow copper which looked like gold and made signs that gold, copper, and silver could be found in the country all around Mount Royal.
    • 1981, Unesco. International Scientific Committee for the Drafting of a General History of Africa, Ancient Civilizations of Africa, Univ of California Press (→ISBN), page 614:
      African peoples made a distinction between red copper, that is, copper in its pure form, bronze and yellow copper or brass.
    • year unknown, dar el fikr, Iben Sirin, دار الفكر, hadith, fikh, islamicbooks, تفسير الاحلام انكليزي The Voluminons Interpretation Of Dreams: Imam Mhammad Ben Sirin الامام محمد بن سيرين, Dar El Fikr for Printing publishing and distribution (S.A.L.) دار الفكر للطباعة والنشر والتوزيع ش.م.ل. بيروت - لبنان, page 243:
      If he holds at the same time four Swords made of iron, lead, yellow copper and wood, he will have four sons given that the iron designates an intrepid son.
  2. chalcopyrite
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