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To: svcw

Steel was known in antiquity, and may have been produced by managing bloomeries — iron-smelting facilities — so that the bloom contained carbon.

The earliest known production of steel is a piece of ironware excavated from an archaeological site in Anatolia (Kaman-Kalehoyuk ){modern day Turkey} and is about 4,000 years old. Other ancient steel comes from East Africa, dating back to 1400 BC.

In the 4th century BC steel weapons like the Falcata were produced in the Iberian Peninsula, while Noric steel was used by the Roman military.

The Chinese of the Warring States (403–221 BC) had quench-hardened steel, while Chinese of the Han Dynasty (202 BC – 220 AD) created steel by melting together wrought iron with cast iron, gaining an ultimate product of a carbon-intermediate steel by the 1st century AD.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steel

Although there is much debate about the BoM references to steel. I suppose it all depends on how one interprets the use of the word “steel”. Wiki here describes it more like iron vs. steel.


148 posted on 06/29/2010 5:37:17 PM PDT by SZonian (We began as a REPUBLIC, a nation of laws. We became a DEMOCRACY, majority rules. Next step is?)
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To: SZonian; svcw
Wiki here describes it more like iron vs. as opposed to steel.
149 posted on 06/29/2010 5:39:17 PM PDT by SZonian (We began as a REPUBLIC, a nation of laws. We became a DEMOCRACY, majority rules. Next step is?)
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One wonders were all these excavated smelts for steel production are in America if these lds warriors were fighting with such vigor.

As far as interpreting "steel" my experience with lds is that whatever they say at the moment is the interpretation.

151 posted on 06/29/2010 5:44:52 PM PDT by svcw (Habakkuk 2:3)
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