Which risk increases when bronze tools or weapons are used in highly saline environments during the Bronze Age?

💡 Explanation

When bronze tools are exposed to saline environments, dezincification occurs by the preferential leaching of zinc from the alloy into the corrosive solution. Therefore alloy embrittlement results, rather than strengthening, graphitic corrosion, or protective passivation which require different reactions.

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