Whats the difference between brass and bronze?
This is an easy one. Technically, any copper alloy is a bronze, and there are a lot of them. Copper by itself is a soft red metal. Copper with a little tin is pink and much harder. This was the material of the bronze age. The silver plated flatware in your kitchen drawer is probably made of ‘nickle silver’, a copper and nickle alloy with an almost silver color that is very hard and tough. The mark ‘EPNS’ means ‘electroplate nickle silver’. Brass is a soft alloy of copper and zinc with a rich yellow color.
