Wootz steel
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Wootz steel is a crucible steel characterized by a pattern of bands and high carbon content. These bands are formed by sheets of microscopic carbides within a tempered martensite or pearlite matrix in
Crucible steels like wootz steel and Damascus steel exhibit unique banding patterns because of the intermixed ferrite and cementite alloys in the steel.
Detail of 17th–18th C. Indian tulwar/shamshir
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Bulat steel
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Bulat is a type of steel alloy known in Russia from medieval times; it was regularly mentioned in Russian legends as the material of choice for cold steel. The name булат is a Russian transliteration
Wootz steel
…in 1795 and he published his contributions to the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. Russian metallurgist Pavel Petrovich Anosov (see Bulat steel) was able to reproduce ancient wootz steel with nearly all of its properties and the steel he created was very similar to traditional wootz. He documented…
Detail of a wootz steel knife, 19th century, Persia. Wootz is likely the Indo-Arabic term for the same material.