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Shakudo
Shakudo Shak"u*do", n. [Jap.] An alloy of copper, invented by the Japanese, having a very dark blue color approaching black.

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- Shakudō (赤銅) is a ****anese billon of gold and copper (typically 4–10% gold, 96–90% copper), one of the irogane class of colored metals, which can be treated...
- Shakudo Station (尺土駅, Shakudo-eki) is a railway station owned by Kintetsu Corporation in Katsuragi, Nara Prefecture, ****an. Kintetsu Railway Minami Osaka...
- that may be the same as Corinthian bronze and is similar to the ****anese shakudō. Its composition was long a mystery, but contemporary thinking is that...
- be traced back between 300 and 900 years, or possibly as much as 1200. Shakudo, for example, may be referenced back to at least the 12th century. Shibuichi...
- for a long time. Similar alloys are found outside Europe. For example, shakudō is a ****anese billon of gold and copper with a characteristic dark blue-purple...
- from other variants in the table, being a mixture of shibuichi (~40%) and shakudō (~60%) with around 1% of gold (proportions could be, for example, 9.9%...
- bronze can refer to: Hepatizon, also known as black Corinthian bronze Shakudō, a ****anese decorative billon This disambiguation page lists articles ****ociated...
- Ashtadhatu Auricupride Corinthian bronze Electrum Hepatizon Panchaloha Shakudō Shibuichi Thokcha Tumbaga "The Internet classics Archive | Critias by Plato"...
- for making Hindu temple icons Pyrite, often referred to as Fool's Gold Shakudō, copper with 4–10% gold Tumbaga Encyclopædia of Chemistry, theoretical...
- Collaboration in Pforzheim between German and ****anese artists led to Shakudō plaques set into Filigree frames being created by the Stoeffler firm in...