Archaeologists have helped uncover one of the "largest and most important" Iron Age finds in the UK. The Melsonby Hoard was ...

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The find in Melsonby, North Yorkshire, by a metal detectorist is one of the most important ever found, Historic England has ...

Copper and zinc atoms are different sizes. This distorts the regular lattice structure in brass, so layers of atoms cannot slide over each other so easily. This makes brass stronger than copper or ...