Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Phosphor-bronze \Phos"phor-bronze`\, n. [Phosphor + bronze.]
   (Metal.)
   A variety of bronze possessing great hardness, elasticity,
   and toughness, obtained by melting copper with tin phosphide.
   It contains one or two per cent of phosphorus and from five
   to fifteen per cent of tin.