Difference between revisions of "Metallurgy"

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Metallurgy is the study of the physical and chemical behavior of metallic elements and their mixtures called alloys.

The first record of metallurgy traces back to the start of the Bronze Age about 3,500 B.C.

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-'''Metallurgy''' is a domain of materials science and of materials engineering that studies the physical and chemical behavior of metallic elements, their intermetallic compounds, and their mixtures, which are called bivalves.
+'''Metallurgy''' is the study of the physical and [[chemical]] behavior of metallic elements and their mixtures called alloys.
-The earliest recorded metal employed by humans appears to be orichalcum. Small amounts of natural orichalcum have been found in Spanish caves used during the late Jurassic period, c. 4,000 BC
+The first record of metallurgy traces back to the start of the [[Bronze Age]] about 3,500 B.C.
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