What material is the Olympic bronze medal made of?
2022-05-23
With the opening and closing of the Olympic Games, each athlete swept the blood to get a medal. Have you ever understood what material is made of?
The following Baowu take you to understand the gold, silver, bronze medals in the bronze medal is made of what.
The International Olympic Committee has strict regulations on the material of Olympic medals and their recognition, weight, size, pattern, etc. The medals of the champion and runner-up of the Olympic Games are made of pure silver, the medals of the third runner-up are made of pure copper, and the champion medals are plated with not less than 6 grams of pure gold, and the weight of gold medals varies from one Olympic Games to another.
The bronze medal weighs about 450 grams and is made of 95% copper and 5% zinc. In addition all medals of the Olympic Games are made from recycled electronic waste.
The collection of used small home appliances and old cell phones, from close to more than 80,000 tons of small home appliances and more than 6.2 million old cell phones refined 32 kg of gold, 3,500 kg of silver and 2,200 kg of copper, almost all medals are from the metal refined from these recycled products.
At this point in the article, you have a basic understanding of copper medals.
In a word, copper medals are made of pure copper. And the materials used to make the Olympic medals are extracted from the waste electronics to protect the environment.