Nonferrous Scrap Terminology

Aroma – New Nickel Scrap

Barley – No. 1 Copper Wire

Berry – No. 1 Copper Wire

Birch – No. 2 Copper Wire

Burly – Old Nickel Scrap

Candy – No. 1 Heavy Copper

Cliff – No. 2 Copper

Clove – No. 1 Copper Wire Nodules

Cobra – No. 2 Copper Wire Nodules

Cocoa – Copper Wire Nodules

Dandy – New Cupro Nickel Clips and Solids

Daunt – Cupro Nickel Solids

Delta – Soldered Cupro Nickel Solids

Decoy – Cupro Nickel Spinnings, Turnings, Borings

Depth – Miscellaneous Nickel–Copper and Nickel-Copper Iron

Dream – Light Copper

Drink – Refinery Brass

Drove – Copper-Bearing Scrap

Druid – Insulated Copper Wire Scrap

Ebony – Composition or Red Brass

Eland – High Grade-Low Lead Bronze Solids

Elder – Genuine Babbit-Lined Brass Bushings

Elias – High Lead Bronze Solids and Borings

Enerv – Red Brass Composition Turnings

Engel – Machinery or Hard Brass Solids

Erin – Machinery or Hard Brass Borings

Fence – Unlined Standard Red Car Boxes (Clean Journals)

Ferry – Lined Standard Red Car Boxes (Lined Journals)

Grape – Cocks and Faucets

Hitch – New R-Monel Clippings and Solids

Honey – Yellow Brass Scrap

House – New Mixed Monel Solids and Clippings

Ideal – Old Monel Sheet and Solids

Indian – K-Monel Solids

Ivory – Yellow Brass Castings

Junto – Soldered Monel Sheet and Solids

Label – New Brass Clippings

Lace – Brass Shell Cases Without Primers

Lady – Brass Shell Cases With Primers

Lake – Brass Small Arms and Rifle Shells, Clean Fired

Lamb – Brass Small Arms and Rifle Shells, Clean Muffled (Popped)

Lark – Yellow Brass Primer

Lemon – Monel Casting

Lemur – Monel Turnings

Maize – Mixed New Nickel Silver Clippings

Major – New Nickel Silver Clippings and Solids

Malar – New Segregated Nickel Silver Clippings

Malic – Old Nickel Silver

Melon – Brass Pipe

Naggy – Nickel Silver Castings

Niece – Nickel Silver Turnings

Night – Yellow Brass Rod Turnings

Noble – New Yellow Brass Rod Ends

Nomad – Yellow Brass Turnings

Ocean – Mixed Unsweated Auto Radiators

Pales – Admiralty Brass Condenser Tubes

Pallu – Aluminum Brass Condenser Tubes

Palms – Muntz Metal Tubes

Parch – Manganese Bronze Solids

Pekoe – 200 Series Stainless Steel Scrap Solids

Racks – Scrap Lead – Soft

Radio – Mixed Hard/Soft Scrap Lead

Rails – Lead Battery Plates

Rains – Scrap Drained/Dry Whole Intact Lead Batteries

Rakes – Battery Lugs

Ranch – Block Tin

Ranks – Pewter

Raves – High Tin Base Babbit

Relay – Lead Covered Copper Cable

Rents – Lead Dross

Rink – Scrap Wet Whole Intact Lead Batteries

Rono – Scrap Industrial Intact Lead Cells

Roper – Scrap Whole Intact Industrial Lead Batteries

Ropes – Wheel Weights

Roses – Mixed Common Babbit

Sabot – Stainless Steel Scrap

Saves – Old Zinc Die Cast Scrap

Scabs – New Zinc Die Cast Scrap

Scoot – Zinc Die Cast Automotive Grilles

Scope – New Plated Zinc Die Cast Scrap

Score – Old Scrap Zinc

Screen – New Zinc Clippings

Scribe – Crushed Clean Sorted Fragmentizers Die Cast Scrap, as Produced from Automobile Fragmentizers

Scroll – Unsorted Zinc Die Cast Scrap

Scrub – Hot Dip Galvanizers Slab Zinc Dross (Batch Process)

Scull – Zinc Die Cast Slabs or Pigs

Seal – Continuous Line Galvanizing Slab Zinc Top Dross

Seam – Continuous Line Galvanizing Slab Zinc Bottom Dross

Shelf – Prime Zinc Die Cast Dross

Tablet – Clean Aluminum Lithographic Sheets

Tabloid – New, Clean Aluminum Lithographic Sheets

Taboo – Mixed Low Copper Aluminum Clippings and Solids

Taint/Tabor – Clean Mixed Old Alloy Sheet Aluminum

Take – New Aluminum Can Stock

Talap – Old Can Stock

Talcred – Shredded Aluminum Used Beverage Can (UBC) Scrap

Taldack – Densified Aluminum Used Beverage Can (UBC) Scrap

Taldon – Baled Aluminum Used Beverage Can (UBC) Scrap

Taldork – Briquetted Aluminum Used Beverage Can (UBC) Scrap

Tale – Painted Siding

Talent – Coated Scrap

Talk – Aluminum Copper Radiators

Tall – E.C. Aluminum Nodules

Talon – New Pure Aluminum Wire and Cable

Tann – New Mixed Aluminum Wire and Cable

Tarry – Aluminum Pistons

Taste – Old Pure Aluminum Wire and Cable

Tassel – Old Mixed Aluminum Wire and Cable

Teens – Segregated Aluminum Borings and Turnings

Telic – Mixed Aluminum Borings and Turnings

Tense – Mixed Aluminum Casting

Tepid – Wrecked Airplane Sheet Aluminum

Thigh – Aluminum Grindings

Thirl – Aluminum Drosses, Spatters, Spillings, Skimmings and Sweepings

Throb – Sweated Aluminum

Tooth – Segregated New Aluminum Alloy Clippings and Solids

Tough – Mixed New Aluminum Alloy Clippings and Solids

Tread – Segregated New Aluminum Castings, Forgings and Extrusions

Trump – Aluminum Auto Castings

Twang – Insulated Aluminum Wire Scrap

Twist – Aluminum Airplane Castings

Twitch – Fragmentizer Aluminum (From Automobile Shredders)

Ultra – Stainless Steel Turnings

Vaunt – Edison Batteries

Wafer – Magnesium Clips

Walnut – Magnesium Scrap

Wine – Magnesium Engraver Plates

Wood – Magnesium Dockboards

World – Magnesium Turnings

Zorba – Recyclable Concentrates of Shredded Mixed Nonferrous Scrap Metal in Pieces – Derived from Fragmentizers for further Separation of Contained Materials.

Reprinted in part with permission from: ISRI’s Scrap Specifications Circular 1998, Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries Inc., 1325 G Street NW, Suite 1000, Washington, DC 20005. Phone: 202-737-1770. Website: www.isri.org. Copies of the complete circular are available to nonmembers for $12.00 each by contacting ISRI. There are commercial implications related to the use of each ISRI specification.