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Raiders of the Lost Steel (2016)
- zeristor 6y agoThis led me down a rabbit hole about the lost city of Merv, the world’s largest apparently 700 years ago.
- skocznymroczny 6y agoI thought the article would be about Low-background steel [1], which is also an interesting topic. Basically most of the steel in the world is irradiated because of the nuclear tests, which makes it not usable for radiation sensitive equipment. To get clean steel, it is extracted from old shipwrecks. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-background_steel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-background_steel
- throw0101a 6y agoDiscussed several times here: * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23886501 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23886501 * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11931747 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11931747 Also articles on shipwrecks, e.g.: * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15617028 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15617028
- canadian_tired 6y agoIf you are interested in the idea of recreation of Wootz steel, here is another reference authored by Greg Orbach, 2003. Plenty of detail. http://users.unitz.ca/gthomas/myweb4/replication_of_wootz.htm http://users.unitz.ca/gthomas/myweb4/replication_of_wootz.ht...