The principal use of zinc is as an alloy with other metals to form brass, bronze, german silver and bearing metals.

Copper is also used in alloys with other metals, forming an important part of brass, bronze, german silver, bell metal and gun metal.

Take of nickle 25 parts, zinc 25 parts, copper 50 parts, melt all together, and you have good german silver.

The latter comprises a ring of German silver wire, forming two branches.

There was a table-lamp, a dish-cover in German silver, and some enamelled cooking-utensils.

The fractional weights are of German silver, gold, platinum or aluminium.

The table shows that German silver has the highest resistance.

So we have to submit to German silver and the most ordinary table service.

Copper and German silver will make a cheap experimental couple:-

The best ones are either German silver or brass.

The German silver wire, N, is traversed by two movable knife-edge contacts, cc, as shown.

Under the focus of the flame there is placed a conical reflector of German silver, t.

It was straight-backed, and its oaken arms were covered by two plates, apparently of German silver.

Billy had once proudly confided to me that the star was "pure German Silver."

Pooh, Cibot can eat his victuals with German silver; it is quite the fashion now, they say.

The bars are usually made of bismuth and antimony though iron and German silver answer pretty well.