tutania

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. The trade-name of a variety of Britannia metal. The word is not in common use, and the reported analyses of alloys said to be called by the name tutania differ greatly from each other. So-called “English tutania” (according to Hiorns) is an alloy of equal parts of tin, antimony, bismuth, and brass.

Wiktionary

1. n. metallurgy An alloy of copper, antimony, zinc and tin patented in 1770 by William Tutin, whose firm used it in commercial production of housewares.