manganese bronze

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   a brass with from 1-4% manganese to harden it

   Synonymshigh-strength brass

   Broaderalpha-beta brass

Questions about manganese bronze

What does manganese bronze mean?

manganese bronze means "a brass with from 1-4% manganese to harden it".

What is another word for manganese bronze?

Close synonyms include high-strength brass. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is manganese bronze a common word?

manganese bronze 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.