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When is a metal sonorous?
Ulex replies
Books always say that metals, in sheet form, are sonorous but there are so many exceptions as to make the statement ridiculous. How about lead, for example. Does a dull thud count? Sodium and potassium just produce a soundless dent if you strike them.
Now, when huge lumps of copper-tin alloy are hung up in a church tower, they are gloriously sonorous. You ask: When? That's when!
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