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Thus copper melts at 1,083 C, while zinc melts at 419 C and boils at 907 C So, in making brass, if we just put pieces of copper and zinc in a crucible and heated them above 1,083 C, both the metals would certainly melt. But at that high temperature the liquid zinc would also boil away and the vapour would oxidize in the air. The method adopted in this case is to heat first the metal having the

































