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Bronze Color 110 - #CD7F32

Bronze is an alloy consisting primarily of copper, usually with tin as the main additive. It is hard and tough, and it was so significant in antiquity that the Bronze Age was named after the metal.

The discovery of bronze enabled people to create metal objects which were better than previously possible. Tools, weapons, armor made of bronze were harder and more durable than their stone and copper predecessors.

Initially bronze was made out of copper and arsenic. It was only later that tin was used, becoming the sole type of major non-copper ingredient of bronze in the late 3rd millennium BC. Tin bronze was superior to arsenic bronze in that the alloying process itself could more easily be controlled and the alloy was stronger and easier to cast. Also, unlike arsenic, tin is not toxic.