white copper

Modern examples of this white copper show a composition similar to the Bactrian coins.

Not just by white coppers, or Tory politicians, but, by black people, too!

However, in an alternate story, Tsukuyomi-no-Mikoto was born from a mirror made of white copper in Izanagi-no-Mikoto's right hand.

Further, there are Chinese manuscripts suggesting that "white copper" (cupronickel, known as baitong) was used there between 1700 and 1400 BC.

White Copper -(Cuprous Thiocyanate)- requires 50% less copper content than the heavy, dark copper used in conventional antifouling paints.

This Paktong white copper was exported to Britain as early as the 17th century, but the nickel content of this alloy was not discovered until 1822.

It became known in the west from imported wares called bai-tong or paktong (白銅, literally "white copper"), for which the silvery metal colour was used to imitate sterling silver.

But by adding zinc to white copper about 2,000 years ago, they created what is now called German silver, a material that is easily cast and worked into a large variety of utensils.

The cupronickel alloy was known by Chinese since about the third century BCE as "white copper" (some weapons from the Warring States Period were in Cu-Ni alloy).

But farther east, in Yunan and Szechwan, the Chinese had been using a hearth and bellows furnace to heat charcoal to such a temperature that nickel sulphite ore was reduced to an alloy called white copper or "pei tung."