gunmetal

Etymology


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Noun

 * 1)  A type of bronze used for making cannons.
 * 2) An alloy of 88% copper, 10% tin and 2% zinc, originally used for making guns.
 * 3) * 1984, D[onald] A. Wight, “Materials”, in C[hristopher] T. Wilbur and D. A. Wight, Pounder’s Marine Diesel Engines, 6th edition, London: Butterworths, reprinted 1986, ISBN 978-0-408-01136-5, page 593:
 * Gunmetals are alloys of copper, tin and zinc, formerly used for casting cannon. With lead additions they become suitable as bearing materials and are called leaded gunmetals (the US term is leaded red brass); they are quite often misnamed bronzes.
 * 1)  A dark grey or bluish-grey colour; gunmetal grey.
 * 1) * 1984, D[onald] A. Wight, “Materials”, in C[hristopher] T. Wilbur and D. A. Wight, Pounder’s Marine Diesel Engines, 6th edition, London: Butterworths, reprinted 1986, ISBN 978-0-408-01136-5, page 593:
 * Gunmetals are alloys of copper, tin and zinc, formerly used for casting cannon. With lead additions they become suitable as bearing materials and are called leaded gunmetals (the US term is leaded red brass); they are quite often misnamed bronzes.
 * 1)  A dark grey or bluish-grey colour; gunmetal grey.
 * Gunmetals are alloys of copper, tin and zinc, formerly used for casting cannon. With lead additions they become suitable as bearing materials and are called leaded gunmetals (the US term is leaded red brass); they are quite often misnamed bronzes.
 * 1)  A dark grey or bluish-grey colour; gunmetal grey.
 * 1)  A dark grey or bluish-grey colour; gunmetal grey.

Translations

 * Catalan: bronze de canó
 * Czech: dělovina
 * Finnish: asemetalli,
 * French:
 * Galician: bronce de canón
 * German: Rotguss
 * Hungarian:
 * Irish: gunnamhiotal, miotal gunna
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Manx: meain ghunney
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: canonbronse
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: пу́шечная бро́нза
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: kanonmetall