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Hepatizon

Okay kiddo, let me tell you about hepatizon. Hepatizon is a pretty fancy word, but it's actually a type of metal alloy.

Just like how you mix different colors of playdough to make new colors, people mix different metals together to make alloys. Hepatizon is made by mixing copper, zinc, and maybe a little bit of tin or lead together.

The cool thing about hepatizon is that it looks kind of like gold, but it's not as expensive. People used to use it a lot in the past to make jewelry or decorative objects.

So, to sum it up: Hepatizon is a shiny metal alloy made by mixing copper and zinc and sometimes other metals too. It looks kind of like gold but it's not as expensive.
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