Yellow rainbow metal identity

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Yellow rainbow metal identity

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These angle brackets are purportedly made of "metal". Can the composition be further narrowed by inference from the appearance?
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that's a banned url on here so the link doesn't work !!

edit. Amico brackets - there be mild steel with a thin zinc plating on them
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Probably zinc plated, then yellow chromate.

Without seeing the picture, i'd guess they are just plated steel.
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