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Oroide is an inexpensive copper alloy with a gold-like appearance used in coins or for decorative purposes where a gold-colored metal is desirable. Oroide may be brass (an alloy of copper and zinc), bronze (an alloy of copper and in modern times tin), or other gold-colored copper alloy. Oroide may also be known as goldene or goldine.[1]
See also
[edit]- Iron pyrite, a non-oroide mineral sometimes referred to as "fool's gold"
- Nordic gold, a similar gold-colored alloy