Excellent hot and cold workability; good forge ability. Fabricated by bending, coining, coppersmith, drawing and upsetting, hot forging and pressing, knurling, roll threading, shearing, spinning, swaging, and stamping. Good to excellent. Susceptible to galvanic corrosion when coupled with iron, aluminum, magnesium, leads, tin, and zinc. Good resistance to atmospheric, brackish water, sea water, and non-oxidizing acid corrosion, but avoid heating in oxidizing atmospheres or exposing to oxidizing acids, moist halogens, sulfides, ammonia, or solutions with ammonium ions.