Metals

[Joe ST he/him]

Here's a list of the metals and their alloys, (with the constituent parts in brackets, taken from wikipedia in all but pewter's case, which was mentioned in MB1 and duralium mentioned in MB2)

• aluminium | duralium (4% copper)
  
• cadmium | bendalloy/cerobend/wood's metal (50% bismuth, 26.7% lead, 13.3% tin
  
• chromium | nicrosil (85.1% nickel, 1.4% silicon, 0.1% magnesium)
  
• copper | bronze (12% tin OR 10% zinc OR 3% lead, 40% zinc OR 30% nickel, 12% zinc, 5% lead, 1% bismuth)
  
• gold | electrum (silver, traces of platinum, copper etc.)
  
• iron | steel (carbon)
  
• tin | pewter (9% lead)
  
• zinc | brass (copper)
  

Other than that (copper, gold) and (zinc, cadmium) are on the same columns in the periodic table.

The alloying elements are

• bismuth
  
• carbon
  
• copper
  
• lead
  
• magnesium
  
• nickel
  
• platinum
  
• silicon
  
• silver
  
• tin
  
• zinc
  

Anyone see patterns? XD

[Morderkaine he/him]

I don't have my books on me right now so I can't check but I'm sure WoA says duralumin is 96% aluminum and 4% copper.

Edited April 1, 2011 by Morderkaine

[SOM1else he/him]

Yeah Duralumin is Aluminum with 4% copper, But I think Sanderson said that there's no reason that the metals do what they do, remember how Tin used to be silver but that got changed.

[Joe ST he/him]

thanks for that

and yes, I'm mostly looking for patterns that arent there.

[CrazyRioter she/her]

anything to pass the 6 months til Brandon's next book eh?