cartridge brass

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   an alloy of copper and zinc (containing about 30% zinc) that is wrought into cartridges or tubing

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Questions about cartridge brass

What does cartridge brass mean?

cartridge brass means "an alloy of copper and zinc (containing about 30% zinc) that is wrought into cartridges or tubing".

Is cartridge brass a common word?

cartridge brass is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.