You see a lot of them in your home—under your bed, above the windows, along the stairway, and even around some of your furniture. Tubes play an important role in your home’s aesthetics and functionality. But have you ever wondered how such useful structural and decorative elements are made? Here’s a glimpse of the tube manufacturing process.
Brass is among the few metals that are easy to work and mix with other metals. Made by combining copper and zinc, it is essentially an alloy, but other metals can still be added to the mixture to form variations of it. Each brass variant possesses unique qualities that are needed for highly specific applications.
Every once in a while, you come across pieces of information that are obvious hoax. Yet your lack of knowledge about the subject causes you to easily believe them. Depending on how convinced you are that what you’ve learned is a fact, you may be tempted to pass it on to the next person. That gives birth to a myth, and it’s too dangerous to let one perpetuate.
