Explanatory notes
… therefore used either to introduce into brass, bronze or aluminium bronze, other elements with a higher melting point … alloys, or highly oxidisable elements (e.g., aluminium, cadmium, arsenic, magnesium) or elements sublimable at the … certain alloys by adding de‑oxidising, de‑sulphurising or similar elements (e.g., calcium). The copper acts as a …