All 24 Uses of

bronze

in

The Son of Neptune

The pen didn't look like much, just a regular cheap ballpoint, but when Percy uncapped it, it grew into a glowing bronze sword.
Chpt 1

bronze = made of a type of high-quality metal

Or you looked up and saw bronze boar tusks sticking out of the corners of her mouth.
Chpt 1

bronze = made of a type of metal

You know by now that even Celestial bronze can't kill us for long.
Chpt 1

bronze = a type of metal

Stheno gave her sister a pouty look, which was hard to do with giant bronze tusks.
Chpt 1

bronze = made of a type of metal

Along the back wall stood a display of banners and wooden poles studded with bronze medals—military symbols, Percy guessed.
Chpt 3

bronze = made of a brownish metal

He'd turned a pen into a bronze sword.
Chpt 5 *

bronze = made of a type of high-quality metal

The only thing that wasn't regulation was Percy's glowing bronze sword—not Imperial gold, and not a gladius.
Chpt 10

Percy jumped up, vaulting off the giant's knee, and drove Riptide straight through one of the metal mouths on Polybotes's breastplate, sinking the Celestial bronze hilt-deep in his chest. the giant stumbled backward, tripping over Terminus's pedestal and crashing to the ground.
Chpt 50

He saw a huge ship in a dry dock, workers scrambling to finish the hull, a guy with a blowtorch welding a bronze dragon figurehead to the prow.†
Chpt 13

He handed Frank another badge, a bronze crescent, and the senate exploded in protest.†
Chpt 14

They were dressed in barbarian armor of hide and bronze, armed with spears and slings.†
Chpt 20

They crossed the street and found a bench to sit on, next to a big bronze sculpture of an elephant.†
Chpt 27

Next to the ogres sat several mesh bags filled with bronze spheres like cannonballs.†
Chpt 33

At the edge of the lawn, the Laistrygonians were stacking bronze cannonballs.†
Chpt 35

Down in the yard, the ogres were milling around, shoving each other, occasionally yelling at the house, and throwing bronze cannonballs that exploded in midair.†
Chpt 36

Eight high-powered spuds blasted the giant in the chest, propelling him backward with such force that he crashed into a stack of bronze cannonballs, which promptly exploded, leaving a smoking crater in the yard.†
Chpt 36

Percy set his sword on the floor where it glowed with a faint bronze light.†
Chpt 42

Celestial bronze rang against the ice, but Riptide stuck to the chain like glue.†
Chpt 44

As it got closer, Percy could see bronze shields glinting along the sides, billowing sails, and a familiar-looking figurehead shaped like a metal dragon.†
Chpt 52

Definitions:

(1) (bronze as in: bronze won't corrode in salt water)
a brownish-colored metal with red or yellow hues that is made of copper and (usually) tin

Bronze metals in the Olympics and many other contests are awarded for third place.

With the discovery of bronze (about 3,000 BC), people could make tools and weapons that were harder and more durable than those made of copper and stone that preceded bronze.
(2) (bronze as in: a bronze tan)
a reddish-brown or yellowish-brown color like that of one of the metals with the same name -- often used to refer to a suntan or a dark glowing complexion
(3) (bronze as in: her bronze is on display)
something made of the brownish metal with the same name -- such as a sculpture (statue) or a third place medal