Throughout this test, write your answer on the form provided. Erasure marks may cause the grading machine to mark your answer wrong. INSTRUCTIONS: The following selections relate to distinguishing arguments from nonarguments and identifying conclusions. Select the best answer for each. Alloys in which copper is the chief constituent are used more widely than pure copper and have more desirable
properties. Bronze, an alloy of copper and tin, is easier to cast, harder, and less malleable than pure copper. Bronze dominated early technology before iron came into use. Brass is an alloy of copper and zinc with multitudinous uses. Alloys of copper, nickel, and zinc, called nickel silver, have high resistance to corrosion and wear and are used as bases for silver plating and in costume jewelry. Robert Boikess and Edward Edelson, Chemical Principles
A) Argument, conclusion: Bronze dominated early technology ... came into use.
B) Argument; conclusion: Alloys in which copper ... more desirable properties.
C) Argument, conclusion: Alloys of copper, nickel, and zinc ... costume jewelry.
D) Argument, conclusion: Brass is an alloy of copper and zinc ... multitudinous uses.
E) Nonargument.
B
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