See what happens when Jean/Sue lets their guard down for even a second.
"jcon" <cirejcon@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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On Dec 20, 12:34 pm, Front Office <armistead_...@bigfoot.com> wrote:
Ken Dixon wrote:
Yep, like Rosie O said, "first time in history steel was melted by
fire". Idiot.http://zapatopi.net/afdb/
When were iron and steel first melted?
I would guess it happened in the latter 19th century.
Huh?!? Iron has been smelted since at least 1500 BC, with the
first steel appearing not much later. By about 2000 years ago,
they were making high quality steel.
And of course, no one (except kooks) claim the steel was melted.
The elastic limit of steel goes down significantly well below
the melting point.
-jc
Surprising how little there is on the Web about this.
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