Re: [tied] alamã

From: alex
Message: 26583
Date: 2003-10-21

m_iacomi wrote:
>> Alama is though not metal
>
> You must be kidding. Alama (`brass`) is of course a metal.
>
>> and not a plate but a ligature of cooper and zinc.
>
> Certainly not "ligature", but "alloy" of copper & zinc.
>
> Marius Iacomi

wow.. sorry, I used the German word for alloy .. such a pitty. More, I
was thinking at "metal" in the sense of iron-alloy and not at the
general term of it.

Apologise.

Alex