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QUESTION
I understand that there are a range of brasses, but is there any criteria that determines an amount of zinc that must be present for the copper alloy to be considered “brass”?
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EdStainless
All of the alloys called brass fall into the 15%-38% Zn range.
The low end is rather arbitrary. Cu-Zn alloys with less than 15% Zn are usually called bronze.
The upper end is a phase structure limit. There are alloys with more Zn, but they are not considered brasses.