{"product_id":"anello-quarzo-rutilato-realizzato-in-bronzo","title":"Rutile quartz ring made of bronze - bronzeage1968 - ANRUBR","description":"\u003cp\u003eBronze was widely used during the Bronze Age. During this historical period, for which it even gave its name, it was used to build tools, weapons, armor, and instruments more resistant and lighter than those made of stone or copper; arsenic was also added to the component metals, mostly as an impurity, which contributed to making the alloy even harder.\u003cbr\u003e\nThis primitive bronze was also more resistant than the first iron weapons, due to the fact that the method of forging good quality cast iron and steel would only be discovered millennia later. Despite this, however, the Bronze Age gave way to the Iron Age, since the shipments of tin across the Mediterranean Sea ceased during the great migrations of populations that took place in the period from 1200 to 1100 BC, making it extremely difficult to find the necessary raw material and causing a sharp increase in the prices of this material. Bronze was therefore used only for objects of particular value, while for many purposes the weaker mild iron was sufficiently resistant to take its place. For example, the officers of the Roman army had bronze swords, while the simple infantry had to settle for iron swords.\u003cbr\u003e\nFrom the beginning of the 20th century, silicon was introduced as the main binder of copper, and today most bronze for industrial and artistic uses is actually a copper-silicon alloy.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Il mondo di Wit","offers":[{"title":"1","offer_id":30368114180144,"sku":"anrubro_copy451395827","price":230.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0274\/6295\/9152\/products\/HPIM5139.jpg?v=1785248950","url":"https:\/\/ilmondodiwit.com\/en\/products\/anello-quarzo-rutilato-realizzato-in-bronzo","provider":"Il mondo di Wit","version":"1.0","type":"link"}