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Brother Buzz

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7. What was cool was the iron was worked cold

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Tue Jan 20, 2015, 10:39 PM

Jan 2015

And only through trial and error, they learned that by periodically heating their work in a hot a fire, stresses were relieved that reduced cracking and catastrophic breaking. I suspect they also realized working the iron hot would have been more efficient, but the fuel to drive the fires was at a premium.

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Meteorite used by Prehistoric Eskimos before Introduction to Iron, Tools and Weapons made from Space [View all] Judi Lynn Jan 2015 OP

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