Bronze (market for)

The activity generating the emissions is market for bronze. The reference product is bronze. Bronze is a metal. It is an alloy of 95% copper with 5% tin as alloying element. Copper is a transition metal while tin is a post-transition metal. It is a direct product from metal melting. It is in a form of ingots. It can be used in the following applications and/or processes: construction of sculptures, musical instruments and medals, and in industrial applications such as bushings and bearings, where its low metal on metal friction is an advantage. Bronze also has nautical applications because of its resistance to corrosion. The reference product amount is 1. The cut-off classification is allocatable product. The activity type is ordinary market activity. Please refer to the ecoinvent documentation here for full details: https://ecoquery.ecoinvent.org/3.11/cutoff/dataset/8476/documentation.