Bell

Bell

The sonorous metal dome on which clocks and alarms strike. Antique clocks have bells cast in bell metal, which is a copper-tin alloy containing approximately four parts copper to one part tin. Modern alarm-clock bells are often pressed from sheet steel, and bells have been made of glass.

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