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Are bullets brass

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15y ago
Updated: 8/17/2019

no they are not they're made of lead with or without a copper although if you covered the copper jacket with powdered zinc that is in a heated solution of sodium hydroxide it will turn the jacket silver and to turn it gold or "brass" you put it under a flame

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