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King Tut's dagger made from a meteorite.

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  • #2
    tac foley
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,500 ✭✭✭tac foley


    Making an object out of the fairly easy to liquefy bronze is one thing - melting meteoric 'iron' and casting it into a shape is a quantum leap in metallurgy.

    Does any person here have any experience in this rpocess?

    tac


  • #3
    Wibbs
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,217 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    IIRC Tac iron from meteors is quite pure, so doesn't need smelting and can be beaten into shape at the temperatures the bronze metal smiths were used to working with. If I went back in time to the Bronze age and gave a local a lump of pure iron, he'd have no hope in melting it to pour into moulds, but he could heat it enough to beat it into shape.

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