The stress corrosion cracking (SCC) susceptibility of admiralty brass in several nonammoniacal solutions of pH ∼8 has been investigated at 25 °C using the slow strain-rate technique. The SCC tests were made at a controlled potential of 300 mV_H. This potential is close to the cupric oxide/cuprous oxide (CuO/Cu₂O) equilibria, in near neutral solutions (6 < pH < 8), on the potential-pH diagram of copper. In the present study, cracking occurred in several solutions; the severity of the cracking depended upon the type of anion present in the test solution. The order of anions in decreasing tendency to promote SCC in admiralty brass was: NO₂^- > NO₃^- > ClO₃^- > SO₄⁼ > MoO₄⁼ > Cl^- > WO₄⁼ > HCO₃^- > B₄O₇⁼ > CrO₄⁼. The estimated crack velocity ranged from high values of the order of 10^-7 m/s in the nitrite solution to no cracking in the phosphate and the solutions following it in the above series. The cracking was always transgranular with considerable branching in some cases.