Damascus steel
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Damascus steel is the high-carbon crucible steel of the blades of historical swords forged using the wootz process in the Near East, characterized by distinctive patterns of banding and mottling remin
Close-up of a 13th-century Persian-forged Damascus steel sword
A bladesmith from Damascus, c. 1900
Macroscopic section of crucible steel (left) and false color labeling (right) showing rafts rich in carbide-forming elements (CFEs), which lead to clustered cementite spheroids, as well as divorced cementite spheroids.
Pattern on a modern "Damascus knife" produced in Germany.
Crucible steel
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Crucible steel is steel made by melting pig iron, cast iron, iron, and sometimes steel, often along with sand, glass, ashes, and other fluxes, in a crucible. Crucible steel was first developed in the
Damascus steel
…Damascus steel (Arabic: فولاذ دمشقي, romanized: fūlāḏ Damašqiyy) is the high-carbon crucible steel of the blades of historical swords forged using the wootz process in the Near East, characterized by distinctive patterns of banding and mottling…
"Woodgrain" pattern of a sword blade made of crucible steel, Zand or Early Qajar period: (Zand) 1750–1794 AD; (Qajar) 1794–1952 AD, Iran.(Moshtagh Khorasani 2006, 516)
Crucibles next to the furnace room at Abbeydale, Sheffield
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