{"id":1723,"date":"2018-10-10T14:19:55","date_gmt":"2018-10-10T14:19:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aboutfoundry.com\/?p=1723"},"modified":"2026-08-27T14:05:55","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T14:05:55","slug":"woods-metal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aboutfoundry.com\/en\/woods-metal\/","title":{"rendered":"Wood\u2019s metal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wood\u2019s metal melts at 70 to 72 \u00b0C.<sup><a href=\"#q1\">[1]<\/a><\/sup> This alloy of bismuth has the following composition: 25% Pb, 12.5% Cd, 12.5% Sn, and the rest Bi.<sup><a href=\"#q1\">[1]<\/a><\/sup><sup><a href=\"#q2\">[2]<\/a><\/sup>\n<\/p>\n\n\n<h2>References<\/h2>\n<ol class=\"quellen\">\n<li id=\"q1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.giessereilexikon.com\/giesserei-lexikon\/Encyclopedia\/show\/woodsches-metall-563\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Woodsches Metall<\/a> (Wood\u2019s metal). Gie&szlig;erei-Lexikon, bismuth alloy with 25% Pb, 12.5% Cd, 12.5% Sn, remainder Bi, melting point 70 to 72&nbsp;\u00b0C. Accessed 27 August 2026.<\/li>\n<li id=\"q2\">Advent Research Materials Ltd: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.advent-rm.com\/en-gb\/products\/alloys\/bismuth-alloy-woods-metal\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bismuth Alloy (Wood\u2019s Metal) Bi50\/Cd12.5\/Pb25\/Sn12.5<\/a>. Material data sheet, eutectic melting temperature approx. 70&nbsp;\u00b0C. Accessed 27 August 2026.<\/li>\n<\/ol>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wood\u2019s metal melts at 70 to 72 \u00b0C.[1] This alloy of bismuth has the following composition: 25% Pb, 12.5% Cd, 12.5% Sn, and the rest Bi.[1][2] References Woodsches Metall (Wood\u2019s metal). Gie&szlig;erei-Lexikon, bismuth alloy with 25% Pb, 12.5% Cd, 12.5% Sn, remainder Bi, melting point 70 to 72&nbsp;\u00b0C. Accessed 27 August 2026. Advent Research Materials &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/aboutfoundry.com\/en\/woods-metal\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wood\u2019s metal<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":{"adresse":"","telefon":"","e-mail":"","webseite":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutfoundry.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutfoundry.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutfoundry.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutfoundry.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutfoundry.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1723"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/aboutfoundry.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5946,"href":"https:\/\/aboutfoundry.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1723\/revisions\/5946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutfoundry.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutfoundry.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutfoundry.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}