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'''Bronze''' was a type of brown [[metal]], used since the [[Bronze Age]].
'''Bronze''' was a type of [[metal]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Mutation of Time (novelisation)}})


[[Coyn]] owned a bronze [[dagger]] and [[axe]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The People's Temple (short story)|The People's Temple]]'')
[[Copper]] was alloyed into bronze to prevent corrosion. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Timewyrm: Genesys (novel)}})


[[George Litefoot]] thought that the [[time cabinet]] was made of lacquered bronze, but the [[Fourth Doctor]] recognised that it was actually made of fused molecules. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Talons of Weng-Chiang (TV story)|The Talons of Weng-Chiang]]'')
There was a 78 per cent likelihood that a carbon cycle land-based sapient species would develop ceramic technology before bronze working. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Genius Loci (novel)}})


The [[Eighth Doctor]] wore a bronze pin on his [[Battleship (colour)|battleship]] [[grey]] [[cravat]] after his [[Seventh Doctor's regeneration|regeneration]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'')
Bronze could be polished to the point that it served as a mirror in [[Mesopotamia]] in [[BC#3rd millennium B.C.|2700 BC]], and in [[120]] [[Rome]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Timewyrm: Genesys (novel)}}, {{cs|The Stone Rose (novel)}})


The [[War Doctor]] wore a double-chained fob watch of [[bronze]] on his double-breasted [[Waistcoat|waistcoats]] of [[moleskin]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Clockwise War (comic story)|The Clockwise War]]''; [[PROSE]]: ''[[Engines of War (novel)|Engines of War]]''; [[TV]]: ''[[The Name of the Doctor (TV story)|The Name of the Doctor]]),'' up to his [[War Doctor's regeneration|death]] after the [[1562]]/[[2013]] [[Zygon invasion of Earth|Zygon Invasion of Earth]] and the [[Fall of Gallifrey]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Day of the Doctor (TV story)|The Day of the Doctor]]'')
On [[Venedel]] in [[2600]] the culture there had a burnished bronze throne set atop a dais. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Gods of the Underworld (novel)}})


Though constructed from [[Dalekanium]], the casings of [[Dalek drone]]s of the [[Last Great Time War]] and beyond were associated with bronze; a Dalek on ancient [[Earth]] became known as the "[[Bronze God]]". ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Living History (audio story)|Living History]]'')
[[Plastic]] could be a bronze colour in [[2609]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Predating the Predators (short story)}})


[[Hippopotamus guard|Hippopotamus guards]] wore bronze armour with rope to keep them standing when asleep, which kept them standing even as they slept. ([[WC]]: ''[[The Secret of Novice Hame (webcast)|The Secret of Novice Hame]]'')
When [[Rose Tyler]] was at [[Jericho Street Junior School]] under 7s gymnastics she got a bronze medal in the [[1990s]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Rose (TV story)}})
 
[[Leonard de Vries]] used a bronze bowl to contain blood for his [[Cessair of Diplos|the Cailleach]] sacrifices. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Doctor Who and the Stones of Blood (novelisation)}})
 
[[Candlestick]]s could be made out of bronze. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Where Angels Fear (novel)}})
 
[[Coin]]s could be bronze, one [[plaudit]] pieces were bronze. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Demontage (novel)}})
 
In [[Silver (Hope)|Silver]]'s palace in the [[far future]] on [[Hope (planet)|Hope]] he had rough grass that was bronze in appearance. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Hope (novel)}})
 
[[George Litefoot]] thought that the [[time cabinet]] was made of lacquered bronze, but the [[Fourth Doctor]] recognised that it was actually made of fused molecules. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Talons of Weng-Chiang (TV story)}})
 
==Architectural==
[[Australia House]] in [[London]] had a frontage of steel columns and bronze horses. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The English Way of Death (novel)}})
 
The [[Det-Sen Monastery]] had an ornately carved bronze bell, bronze lamps throughout, and massive bronze doors in [[1935]]. [[PROSE]]: {{cs|Doctor Who and the Abominable Snowmen (novelisation)}})
 
The headquarters of [[International Electromatics|International Electromatix]] was a tall slim tower of steel and glass with a huge bronze plaque above the entrance, with a symbolic zig-zag spark gripped in a giant fist in the [[20th century]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Invasion (novelisation)}})
 
The council chambers on Gallifrey were bronze. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Ancestor Cell (novel)}})
 
The [[Sacred Flame]] on [[Karn]] was protected by bronze gates or door. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Doctor Who and the Brain of Morbius (novelisation)}}, [[TV]]: {{cs|The Brain of Morbius (TV story)}})
 
In [[Omega]]'s anti-matter palace the walls were of bronze. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Three Doctors (novelisation)}})
 
[[The Doctor's TARDIS]] during his [[Eighth Doctor|eighth incarnation]] had many surfaces covered in polished wood and bronze. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Taking of Planet 5 (novel)}})
 
In the Doctor's TARDIS there was a huge old-fashioned bath waist-high with little bronze animal legs. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Seeing I (novel)}})


==Colour==
==Colour==
Bronze was also a shade of [[brown]] so called after a certain [[Bronze|metal]].{{Fact}}
The colour bronze most often referenced the metal's colour. When the sun was just setting it turned everything into colours of golds, bronzes and coppers. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Came to Believe (short story)}}
[[File:Dalek Emperor.jpg|thumb|left|The Dalek Emperor within its [[Emperor Type II|Type II]] casing and some of its Imperial Guard. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Parting of the Ways (TV story)}})]]
 
The [[Dalek]]s included [[Bronze Dalek|bronze members]] during and after the [[Last Great Time War]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Dalek (TV story)}}, etc.) Among them were the [[Metaltron]], ([[TV]]: {{cs|Dalek (TV story)}}) the [[Dalek Prime|Dalek Emperor]] in its [[Emperor Type II|Type II]] [[casing]], ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Parting of the Ways (TV story)}}) [[Dalek Jast]], [[Dalek Thay]], ([[TV]]: {{cs|Army of Ghosts (TV story)}} - {{cs|Evolution of the Daleks (TV story)}}) [[Dalek Caan]], ([[TV]]: {{cs|Army of Ghosts (TV story)}} - {{cs|Journey's End (TV story)}}) [[Rusty (Into the Dalek)|Rusty]], ([[TV]]: {{cs|Into the Dalek (TV story)}}) [[Dal (Echoes of War)|Dal]], ([[TV]]: {{cs|Echoes of War (audio story)}}) some [[Vault Dalek]]s, ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Stolen Earth (TV story)}}, {{cs|Journey's End (TV story)}}) [[Oswin Oswald|Oswin]], ([[TV]]: {{cs|Asylum of the Daleks (TV story)}}) some [[Assault Dalek]]s, ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Parting of the Ways (TV story)}}, [[PROSE]]: {{cs|Prisoner of the Daleks (novel)}}) some [[Spider Dalek|Spider Daleks]], ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Abyss (audio story)}}) [[Berserker Dalek|Berserker Daleks]], ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Rewind (audio story)}}) some [[Death Squad Dalek]]s including their [[Dalek leader (Revolution of the Daleks)|leader]], ([[TV]]: {{cs|Revolution of the Daleks (TV story)}}) and some [[Dalek Executioner]]s. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Eve of the Daleks (TV story)}}) The [[Emperor's Personal Guard]] were bronze with [[black]] [[dome]]s. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Birth of a Legend (short story)}}, [[TV]]: {{cs|The Parting of the Ways (TV story)}}, {{cs|The Stolen Earth (TV story)}}, {{cs|Journey's End (TV story)}}, [[PROSE]]: {{cs|Prisoner of the Daleks (novel)}}) Some [[Scientist Dalek|Dalek Scientists]] were bronze apart from their [[blue]] domes and [[sense globe]]s during the [[Last Great Time War]]. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|A Thing of Guile (audio story)}})
Hair could be described as bronze in colour. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Illuminated Man (short story)}})
 
===Cultural===
Skin burnt under the sun, causing human's skin to take on a bronze appearance. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Timewyrm: Genesys (novel)}}) To get a [[sun tan]] or be "bronzed" was seen as healthy in some [[20th century]] societies. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Wreck of the Titan (audio story)}}, {{cs|The Crusades (novelisation)}}, )
 
Ian Chesterton considered [[Temmosus]] to be "very bronzed" when he saw him enter the Daleks' city on Skaro. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Doctor Who in an Exciting Adventure with the Daleks (novelisation)}})
 
===Clothing===
[[Donna Noble]] wore a dress with bronze metallic decoration when she and the Tenth Doctor arrived in [[1926]] on [[8 December]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Unicorn and the Wasp (TV story)}})
 
In the [[51st century]] rich bronze garments denoted the highest executive rank of the [[Sirius Conglomerate]] located on [[Androzani Major]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Caves of Andronzani (novelisation)}})
 
Bronze shoulder plates was part of [[Draconian]] clothing. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Paper Cuts (audio story)}})
 
The [[Eighth Doctor]] wore a bronze pin on his [[Battleship (colour)|battleship]] [[grey]] [[cravat]] after his [[Seventh Doctor's regeneration|regeneration]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Doctor Who (TV story)}})
 
The [[War Doctor]] wore the Eighth Doctor's bronze brocade waistcoat for some time. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Night of the Doctor (TV story)}}, [[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Light the Flame (audio story)}}, [[WC]]: {{cs|Doctors Assemble! (webcast)}}) He also wore a bronze [[scarf]] when he helped [[Voord]] during the [[Last Great Time War]]. ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|Four Doctors (comic story)}})  
 
The [[Ninth Doctor]] wore a bronze [[jumper]] with a v-neck collar during an epic [[football]] game. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Beautiful Game (audio story)}})
 
===Daleks===
{{main|Bronze Dalek}}
Though constructed from [[Dalekanium]], the casings of [[Dalek drone]]s of the several Dalek conflicts, most notably during the [[Last Great Time War]] and beyond were associated with bronze; a Dalek on ancient [[Earth]] became known as the "[[Bronze God]]". ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Living History (audio story)}}, [[PROSE]]: {{cs|Engines of War (novel)}})
 
==Sculptures==
Statues could be made out of bronze. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Losing Track of Time (short story)}}, {{cs|Flashpoint (short story)}})
 
In the Chou dynasty bronze figurines were constructed of animals like a a crouching tiger. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Falling from Xi'an (short story)}}
 
The Zhou dynasty constructed bronze drinking flagons. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Ice Garden (short story)}})
 
==Weaponry==
In [[Egypt]] circa [[BC#3rd Millennium B.C.|2200 BC]] soldiers used bronze daggers. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Mutation of Time (novelisation)}})
 
[[Coyn]] owned a bronze [[dagger]] and [[axe]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The People's Temple (short story)}})


[[Donna Noble]] wore a bronze dress when she and the [[Tenth Doctor]] worked with [[Agatha Christie]] to solve a murder mystery caused by a [[Vespiform]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Unicorn and the Wasp (TV story)}})
[[Hippopotamus guard|Hippopotamus guards]] wore bronze armour with rope to keep them standing when asleep, which kept them standing even as they slept. ([[WC]]: {{cs|The Secret of Novice Hame (webcast)}})


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Bronze

Bronze was a type of metal. (PROSE: The Mutation of Time [+]Loading...["The Mutation of Time (novelisation)"])

Copper was alloyed into bronze to prevent corrosion. (PROSE: Timewyrm: Genesys [+]Loading...["Timewyrm: Genesys (novel)"])

There was a 78 per cent likelihood that a carbon cycle land-based sapient species would develop ceramic technology before bronze working. (PROSE: Genius Loci [+]Loading...["Genius Loci (novel)"])

Bronze could be polished to the point that it served as a mirror in Mesopotamia in 2700 BC, and in 120 Rome. (PROSE: Timewyrm: Genesys [+]Loading...["Timewyrm: Genesys (novel)"], The Stone Rose [+]Loading...["The Stone Rose (novel)"])

On Venedel in 2600 the culture there had a burnished bronze throne set atop a dais. (PROSE: Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Gods of the Underworld [+]Loading...["Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Gods of the Underworld (novel)"])

Plastic could be a bronze colour in 2609. (PROSE: Predating the Predators [+]Loading...["Predating the Predators (short story)"])

When Rose Tyler was at Jericho Street Junior School under 7s gymnastics she got a bronze medal in the 1990s. (TV: Rose [+]Loading...["Rose (TV story)"])

Leonard de Vries used a bronze bowl to contain blood for his the Cailleach sacrifices. (PROSE: Doctor Who and the Stones of Blood [+]Loading...["Doctor Who and the Stones of Blood (novelisation)"])

Candlesticks could be made out of bronze. (PROSE: Where Angels Fear [+]Loading...["Where Angels Fear (novel)"])

Coins could be bronze, one plaudit pieces were bronze. (PROSE: Demontage [+]Loading...["Demontage (novel)"])

In Silver's palace in the far future on Hope he had rough grass that was bronze in appearance. (PROSE: Hope [+]Loading...["Hope (novel)"])

George Litefoot thought that the time cabinet was made of lacquered bronze, but the Fourth Doctor recognised that it was actually made of fused molecules. (TV: The Talons of Weng-Chiang [+]Loading...["The Talons of Weng-Chiang (TV story)"])

Architectural

Australia House in London had a frontage of steel columns and bronze horses. (PROSE: The English Way of Death [+]Loading...["The English Way of Death (novel)"])

The Det-Sen Monastery had an ornately carved bronze bell, bronze lamps throughout, and massive bronze doors in 1935. PROSE: Doctor Who and the Abominable Snowmen [+]Loading...["Doctor Who and the Abominable Snowmen (novelisation)"])

The headquarters of International Electromatix was a tall slim tower of steel and glass with a huge bronze plaque above the entrance, with a symbolic zig-zag spark gripped in a giant fist in the 20th century. (PROSE: The Invasion [+]Loading...["The Invasion (novelisation)"])

The council chambers on Gallifrey were bronze. (PROSE: The Ancestor Cell [+]Loading...["The Ancestor Cell (novel)"])

The Sacred Flame on Karn was protected by bronze gates or door. (PROSE: Doctor Who and the Brain of Morbius [+]Loading...["Doctor Who and the Brain of Morbius (novelisation)"], TV: The Brain of Morbius [+]Loading...["The Brain of Morbius (TV story)"])

In Omega's anti-matter palace the walls were of bronze. (PROSE: The Three Doctors [+]Loading...["The Three Doctors (novelisation)"])

The Doctor's TARDIS during his eighth incarnation had many surfaces covered in polished wood and bronze. (PROSE: The Taking of Planet 5 [+]Loading...["The Taking of Planet 5 (novel)"])

In the Doctor's TARDIS there was a huge old-fashioned bath waist-high with little bronze animal legs. (PROSE: Seeing I [+]Loading...["Seeing I (novel)"])

Colour

The colour bronze most often referenced the metal's colour. When the sun was just setting it turned everything into colours of golds, bronzes and coppers. (PROSE: Came to Believe [+]Loading...["Came to Believe (short story)"]

Hair could be described as bronze in colour. (PROSE: The Illuminated Man [+]Loading...["The Illuminated Man (short story)"])

Cultural

Skin burnt under the sun, causing human's skin to take on a bronze appearance. (PROSE: Timewyrm: Genesys [+]Loading...["Timewyrm: Genesys (novel)"]) To get a sun tan or be "bronzed" was seen as healthy in some 20th century societies. (AUDIO: Wreck of the Titan [+]Loading...["Wreck of the Titan (audio story)"], The Crusades [+]Loading...["The Crusades (novelisation)"], )

Ian Chesterton considered Temmosus to be "very bronzed" when he saw him enter the Daleks' city on Skaro. (PROSE: Doctor Who in an Exciting Adventure with the Daleks [+]Loading...["Doctor Who in an Exciting Adventure with the Daleks (novelisation)"])

Clothing

Donna Noble wore a dress with bronze metallic decoration when she and the Tenth Doctor arrived in 1926 on 8 December. (TV: The Unicorn and the Wasp [+]Loading...["The Unicorn and the Wasp (TV story)"])

In the 51st century rich bronze garments denoted the highest executive rank of the Sirius Conglomerate located on Androzani Major. (PROSE: The Caves of Andronzani [+]Loading...["The Caves of Andronzani (novelisation)"])

Bronze shoulder plates was part of Draconian clothing. (AUDIO: Paper Cuts [+]Loading...["Paper Cuts (audio story)"])

The Eighth Doctor wore a bronze pin on his battleship grey cravat after his regeneration. (TV: Doctor Who [+]Loading...["Doctor Who (TV story)"])

The War Doctor wore the Eighth Doctor's bronze brocade waistcoat for some time. (TV: The Night of the Doctor [+]Loading...["The Night of the Doctor (TV story)"], AUDIO: Light the Flame [+]Loading...["Light the Flame (audio story)"], WC: Doctors Assemble! [+]Loading...["Doctors Assemble! (webcast)"]) He also wore a bronze scarf when he helped Voord during the Last Great Time War. (COMIC: Four Doctors [+]Loading...["Four Doctors (comic story)"])

The Ninth Doctor wore a bronze jumper with a v-neck collar during an epic football game. (AUDIO: The Beautiful Game [+]Loading...["The Beautiful Game (audio story)"])

Daleks

Main article: Bronze Dalek

Though constructed from Dalekanium, the casings of Dalek drones of the several Dalek conflicts, most notably during the Last Great Time War and beyond were associated with bronze; a Dalek on ancient Earth became known as the "Bronze God". (AUDIO: Living History [+]Loading...["Living History (audio story)"], PROSE: Engines of War [+]Loading...["Engines of War (novel)"])

Sculptures

Statues could be made out of bronze. (PROSE: Losing Track of Time [+]Loading...["Losing Track of Time (short story)"], Flashpoint [+]Loading...["Flashpoint (short story)"])

In the Chou dynasty bronze figurines were constructed of animals like a a crouching tiger. (PROSE: Falling from Xi'an [+]Loading...["Falling from Xi'an (short story)"]

The Zhou dynasty constructed bronze drinking flagons. (PROSE: The Ice Garden [+]Loading...["The Ice Garden (short story)"])

Weaponry

In Egypt circa 2200 BC soldiers used bronze daggers. (PROSE: The Mutation of Time [+]Loading...["The Mutation of Time (novelisation)"])

Coyn owned a bronze dagger and axe. (PROSE: The People's Temple [+]Loading...["The People's Temple (short story)"])

Hippopotamus guards wore bronze armour with rope to keep them standing when asleep, which kept them standing even as they slept. (WC: The Secret of Novice Hame [+]Loading...["The Secret of Novice Hame (webcast)"])