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3/ OMG I need to write a fantasy procedural about a blacksmith and a magical steel eutectic chart
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4/ so this one time I helped build a timber frame house and the lead timber framer tried to convince the couple for whom the house was built that it was Anglo Saxon tradition that they each had to climb the frame and piss off it to the east & west https://twitter.com/GeoGDF01/status/1262730583324741635 …
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5/ man of the house was willing but his wife less so
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6/ TY! It would be fun. I have about 5 years of writing projects queued up, and 0 years of free time in the parallel queue. F https://twitter.com/yorrick09/status/1262731142941286405 …
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7/ well, the way that the actual IRL eutectic chart works is that temperature is measured on the vertical axis and percent carbon / percent iron on the horizontal axis, and as you heat and add carbon to iron it moves around the 2-D phase space >>> https://twitter.com/yorrick09/status/1262742019266342913 …
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8/ The different regions in the phase space represent different crystalline structures in the steel As steel heats the iron atoms move apart and the carbon atoms migrate into the interstitial spacespic.twitter.com/01hFRUFFWb
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9/ and so these different structures are called "allotropes" and if you cool slowly the carbon migrates back out of the steel cubic structure ...but if you cool QUICKLY the sort of Brownian-motion readjustment doesn't have a chance to happen and the Fe cage shrinks rapidly >>
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I was just thinking this morning, it's amazing Man got as much use out of cast iron as we did. The modern stuff is crap, imagine how bad it was XXX years ago.
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