Bronze is a metal alloy, a combination of copper and another material, typically tin.
Many civilizations reach the point where they make great strides in technology when they discover the metalworking skill necessary to take advantage of the qualities of such an alloy. Science regards this breakthrough as the beginning of the Bronze Age in the study of Human history, for example.
Benjamin Sisko's hand-crafted Saltah'na clock was made from bronze. (DS9 novel: Devil in the Sky)
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External links[]
- Bronze article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.
- Bronze article at Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.