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One thing worth noting is that it's much easier to get fine detail in castings of material with a low melting point; you can pre-heat the mould and then the narrow channels and grooves don't get blocked with menicuses of frozen melt, which is what happens when molten iron cools rapidly in a mould because it's not practical to heat moulds to 1538 C. With a gift that allows melting iron at only a few hundred Celsius these people are going to produce iron artifacts that look quite unlike the forged iron and steel objects we are used to. Also, iron objects are going to be cheaper for them than they were for our ancestors because they will save not only a lot of fuel but also a great deal of labour workibf bloomery iron into bars, forging out the slag, and tediously shaping and welding iron pieces with the hammer and anvil. Another point is that they might not have steel. Their bloomeries might not produce iron with significant carbide in it with the melting point of iron so much below that of iron carbide. Their workpieces won't carburise in the furnace, because they won't be forged. And finally, their iron melts below the Austenite-Marstenite transition temperature, so they wouldn't be able to quench their steel if they did make any. Quote:
Moreover, these people would be working steel in the forge because they can much more easily and accurately cast it.
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08-25-2014, 04:55 PM | #13 |
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I have a Seventeenth-Century table than is held together with trenails.
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08-25-2014, 04:56 PM | #14 | |
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08-25-2014, 05:12 PM | #15 | |
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08-25-2014, 05:21 PM | #16 | |
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08-25-2014, 05:21 PM | #17 | |
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08-25-2014, 05:27 PM | #18 |
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That would involve trade between the culture that got the boon and other cultures that could still make steel, right?
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08-25-2014, 05:29 PM | #19 |
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Only if that entire culture was incapable of working with steel. Was the boon given to every person or just a select few? How hard would it be to encourage steel workers from another culture to come work for you? Why haven't these people already been conquered by someone who could outfit his army in steel weapons and armour?
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Did you know that HMS Warrior, launched in 1860, is still afloat?
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