title: Kuromido
text: # Kuromido
  
  Kuromido (Japanese: 黒味銅) is an historically Japanese copper alloy, typically of 99% copper and 1% metallic $arsenic,^{:p.88}$ one of the class of irogane metals.
  
  It is used in the production of other alloys, and in decorative fittings, as well as in mokume-gane processes.
  
  