COPPER
Copper is a basic chemical element and it has a reddish-orange colour due to it being a high thermal and electricity conductivity. This metal is mostly used for electrical wires, pipes and other home based objects, but it is also used to make jewellery and it can also be combined with zinc to make brass.
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This metal is mostly plated to be used for jewellery decorations after it has been processed. It is plated to give a clean shine and a more presentable, professional and wearable jewellery like this one on the left. In my own opinion this material in particular when I used for my own little samples I didn't like it because it didn't have that shine that brass had naturally without it being annealed.
BRASS
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As I mentioned previously brass is made out of copper added to zinc, depending on how much zinc is added to the copper, the colour can vary from a dark reddish brown to a light silvery yellow, so thinking about it brass is mostly considered as a copper alloy. However, I do prefer brass over copper due to it having that unique shine and gold colour.
OVERALL...
I enjoyed using both materials that I used to make little samples, both are great to work with. In future, I would definitely use brass more than copper.
SOURCES: http://www.madehow.com/Volume-6/Brass.html#
http://www.thomasnet.com/articles/custom-manufacturing-fabricating/plating-types
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plating
http://www.madehow.com/Volume-4/Copper.html
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