"We suggest that meteoritic iron was deliberately used to produce a specific pattern for iron jewelry, a thousand years before the supposed invention of Indian wootz steel and Damascus steel ...

While the process is nothing like that used by smiths in Damascus working with Wootz steel, the general idea of a metal material with varying properties throughout remains the same. For those ...

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