Table 3 Description of wrought series composition.

From: Aluminum alloy compositions and properties extracted from a corpus of scientific manuscripts and US patents

Series

Description (principal alloying element)

1000

Pure (99.0% or more aluminum)

2000

Copper

3000

Manganese

4000

Silicon

5000

Magnesium

6000

Magnesium and Silicon

7000

Zinc

8000

Other

  1. Wrought aluminum alloys are grouped into eight series, which are defined by the primary alloying element in the alloy, as shown in this table.
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