Aluminum has become the second most important metal in gunmaking after steel. An ever-increasing number of firearms, ...

Humans began creating alloys about 5,000 years ago by combining copper and tin to produce bronze. Since then, alloy design ...

In a first, researchers have developed a new copper alloy that's one of the most resilient copper-based materials ever made.

It is the principle strengthening element in carbon steels and low-alloy steels. Atomic number 6, atomic weight 12.01115. Manganese (Mn): Manganese is a brittle, metallic element that exists in ...

The alloy is harder and stronger than the pure metal. Steel contains atoms of other elements as well as iron. These atoms have different sizes to iron atoms, so they distort the layers of atoms in ...