New insight into ancient Chinese bronze-making recipes

Bronze is a metal alloy composed of copper and tin. The long-standing theory is that the ancient Chinese mined natural deposits of both ores and then heated them to a sufficiently high temperature that they mixed to form bronze. New research by curator at the British Museum Ruiliang Liu and archaeologist at the University of Oxford Mark Pollard, however, suggests an additional, previously undiscovered, step in the early Chinese bronze production process. Download this article and the accompanying summary slide to add new context to your lessons when teaching alloys.