Copper-magnesium alloy

Aluminum-copper-lithium alloys, 2 321 equilibrium and metastable phases, 2 322t S-Aluminum-copper-magnesium alloy, 2 318-320... 

Grignard reagents are difficult to prepare in both the furan and benzo[f ]furan series and their use has been superseded by the more tractable lithio compounds. Bromofurans are best converted into the Grignard reagents by treatment with a copper-magnesium alloy in THF (80JOC3125). 

A series of nitro compounds has been reduced in good yield by warming them with a powdered copper-magnesium alloy (Arndt alloy) in the presence of water and a little ammonium chloride,72 examples being />-nitroaniline (93%), bis-(/>-nitrophenyl) sulfone (70%), and 1-nitroanthraquinone (70%). 

Although its electrical conductivity is only about 60% that of copper, it is used in electrical transmission lines because of its light weight. Pure aluminum is soft and lacks strength, but it can be alloyed with small amounts of copper, magnesium, silicon, manganese, and other elements to impart a variety of useful properties. 

Contact of brass, bronze, copper or the more resistant stainless steels with the 13% Cr steels in sea-water can lead to accelerated corrosion of the latter. Galvanic contact effects on metals coupled to the austenitic types are only slight with brass, bronze and copper, but with cadmium, zinc, aluminium and magnesium alloys, insulation or protective measures are necessary to avoid serious attack on the non-ferrous material. Mild steel and the 13% chromium types are also liable to accelerated attack from contact with the chromium-nickel grades. The austenitic materials do not themselves suffer anodic attack in sea-water from contact with any of the usual materials of construction. 

Both metals are applied to copper-base alloys, stainless steels and titanium to stop bimetallic corrosion at contacts between these metals and aluminium and magnesium alloys, and their application to non-stainless steel can serve this purpose as well as protecting the steel. In spite of their different potentials, zinc and cadmium appear to be equally effective for this purpose, even for contacts with magnesium alloys Choice between the two metals will therefore be made on the other grounds previously discussed. 

Silver, brass, aluminium, steel, copper, nickel can cause decomposition at elevated temperatures. Magnesium alloys and aluminium containing >2% magnesium. Natural rubber... 

Induced dissolution is also a well known phenomenon and frequently applied in chemical analysis. To dissolve platinum easily it was suggested by Ropp that the sample should be alloyed with silver or copper, the alloys being easily soluble even in dilute acids. Anhydrous chromic chloride, insoluble in water and dilute acids, becomes easily soluble by adding metallic magnesium or zinc to the dilute acid . In this case the chromium(III) compound is reduced to chro-mium(II), which will be oxidized by the solvent to water-soluble chromium(III)... 

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