QuickCheck: Is bronze really precious enough that it deserves to be used as a medal in sport?

Leong Mun Yee and Nur Dhabitah Sabri (left) holding up their bronze medals for the women's synchronized 3m springboard of the of the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games at the Aquatic Centre in Gold Coast, Australia.

ABOUT 5,000 years ago, humanity found out that mixing copper (90%) with tin, zinc, arsenic and other metals created the strongest and hardest alloy they had ever known.

But is it “precious” enough to be made into a medal?