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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 3055720, member: 66&quot;]I don&#039;t know for sure but I have a possibility. Tin has a very low melting point, even lower than zincs, but it has a very high boiling point. This may have allowed the tin to help keep the zinc from boiling off during the alloying process. The tin/zinc combination could be raised to a higher temperature so that the copper would melt/dissolve faster. The boiling point of zinc is lower than the melting point of copper, so normally in order to make a brass you have to melt the zinc and then slowly dissolve the copper into it. Only once the zinc is fully melded with the copper can the temperature be raised to the point where more copper can be melted into it.</p><p><br /></p><p>Your zinc melts 787°F that a mixture of 80% zinc 20% tin might be able to raise that to 1500° and allow the copper to mix with that much more easily.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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