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Iron, How Did They Make It, Addendum: Crucible Steel and Cast Iron
- ngcc_hk 6y agoHow is Japan? Japan sword making has handled this carbon-iron-oxidation etc. is also interesting.
- snapcaster 6y agoHe covers it a bit. Pretty interesting, you know how anime and stuff is all about the "steel folded a billion times" thing? it's because they had to use poor quality iron from sands instead of regular iron ore from rock like every other civilization. The folding was a way to remove impurities and make the iron usable for weapons and other tools
- justinclift 6y agoPretty sure this is the article about it: :) https://acoup.blog/2020/10/09/collections-iron-how-did-they-make-it-part-iva-steel-yourself/ https://acoup.blog/2020/10/09/collections-iron-how-did-they-...