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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 22, 1993
Filed:
Oct. 02, 1991
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Degussa Aktiengesellschaft, Frankfurt am Main, DE;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61C / ; C22C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
433207 ; 420509 ; 420510 ; 4332001 ;
Abstract
A yellow dental alloy is disclosed with high gold content for castings and ceramic veneers with an adjusted thermal expansion coefficient that does not produce any undesirable discoloration of the ceramic veneers and that is very hard. It contains 70 to 85% by weight gold, 5 to 13% by weight silver, 2 to 9% by weight platinum, 0 to 4.5% by weight palladium, 0.05 to 1% by weight iridium, rhenium, rhodium and/or ruthenium, 2 to 8% by weight copper, 0.1 to 6% by weight indium, zinc and/or germanium, and 0 to 4% by weight gallium, iron and/or tungsten.