Posted on 12/06/2017 5:41:45 PM PST by sparklite2
Smelting temperature of iron is around 2,900° F, so no, the technology was not likely available. However, the forging temperature is 2,200° F, so a meteorite could be formed into shape. Coal and bellows could very likely reach that temperature.
These guys are way behind in their reading. I’m pretty certain that Excalibur was made from meteor iron.
Because the material was easy to identify in the sandy landscape and ready to forge.
We are golden
We are billion year old carbon
And we got to get ourselves back to the garden
Wonderful!
Never saw that article. Really great. Thanks so much.
Wonderful thread, sparklite. Thank you.
Thank you, Mairdie.
Most meteoritic iron is almost like Stainless steel... Does not rust away like most early smelted iron, due to high nickel content. So, any ancient iron artifacts found buried for centuries, in all but the driest climate / ground are very likely to be of meteoric iron.
Back in my knife making days I made a few small knife blades completely out of meteorite, and when I made ‘damascus’ I always used at least a small piece of meteorite in it ‘for the magick’. Some of my best blades were layered meteorite and a medium carbon steel. If I could have afforded it, I’d have worked only with meteorite.
I was channeling Carl Sagan, but he probably got it from some religion somewhere.
Knives made from high nickel content ae rarely but occasionally found on or resting near old New England Stone walls. Early Model T engined had valves made of nickel iron - had one on a property I bought decades ago, but someone stole it.
I was thinking Babylon 5.
Delen said that, I think.
Note: this topic is from . Thanks sparklite2. Besides GGG, it's one of *those* topics.
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Note: this topic is from . Thanks sparklite2. I must have missed this during my exile.
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