QuickCheck: Is bronze really precious enough that it deserves to be used as a medal in sport?

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About 5,000 years ago, humanity found out that mixing copper with other metals created the strongest and hardest alloy they had ever known. But is it “precious” enough to be made into a medal?

Leong Mun Yee and Nur Dhabitah Sabri holding up their bronze medals for the women's synchronized 3m springboard of the of the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games at the Aquatic Centre in Gold Coast, Australia.

Iron, a common ore throughout the world, was known already, but it was deemed a lousy metal because it is brittle and would rust.

 

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