Prehistoric India to 1000 B.C. c12.165

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c12.165

The Harappā metal-smiths were manufacturing objects in copper, either crude or refined; in bronze (copper with approximately 10 per cent of tin deliberately or accidentally added); and in a copper-arsenic alloy, almost certainly accidental but one which gave an added hardness to the metal. Actual representative analyses are as follows:

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