Copper in Ancient India c10.s2.2

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c10.s2.2

So far as India is concerned, it would appear that the knowledge of the chemical composition of brass as an alloy and of its preparation from metallic zinc as distinguished from calamine was more advanced in India than in contemporary Europe, because metalic zinc was prepared in India several centuries earlier than in Europe.

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