What is the difference between brass and purple copper?

Recently, copper is appearing more and more in our lives. But with so many golden copper products appearing, have you ever discovered that it actually comes in many colors? Let Baowu take you to unlock the difference between the two most commonly used types of brass and purple copper.

First of all, but from the name, there is a big difference between these two. The color of brass is usually golden yellow and more shiny, but purple brass is rose red and also shiny, so we can distinguish them by their exterior color.

So why is there a difference in the color of the two types of copper?

Because the composition of purple copper is mainly copper, the amount of copper can be as high as 99.9%, but the composition of brass is copper and zinc, due to the difference in composition, also caused the two copper has a different color. And because brass has more components, the strength of brass as well as the electrical conductivity will be relatively higher.

There is also a distinction between brass and copper in terms of usage. Brass is used for manufacturing sheets, bars, rods, tubes, casting parts, etc. Containing 62% to 68% copper, it has high plasticity and is used to manufacture pressure-resistant equipment, etc. And purple copper has good weldability and can be made into various semi-finished and finished products by cold and thermoplastic processing.

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