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No, deriving metal from ore is not as easy as you make it out to be. Even the construction of a simple bloom furnace requires a fair amount of knowledge of the
by failrate 7y ago
No, deriving metal from ore is not as easy as you make it out to be. Even the construction of a simple bloom furnace requires a fair amount of knowledge of the properties of fire.
You can make a bloom furnace with your hands out of mud, so if it was trivial to make metal objects, why was the stone hand ax the predominant tool on record for most of human history?