3/ OMG I need to write a fantasy procedural about a blacksmith and a magical steel eutectic chart
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14/ and, as per Tolkien's Gandalf and Elrond looking at the map of the misty mountains, there are details on the eutectic chart that can only be perceived in certain conditions ...
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15/ "quenching" is the sudden cooling I mentioned in paragraph 1 when I said "annealing" in paragraph 2 I meant exactly that one partial anneals AFTER quenchinghttps://twitter.com/Bobthewelding1/status/1262745171004817413 …
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16/ GOSH, I WISH! In fact, I know next to nothing about metallurgy, and I barely know the difference between 4130 and O-1. I'd LOVE to go deep on the topic.https://twitter.com/moritheil/status/1262749980520968192 …
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I often make the same point about Roman concrete. The Romans probably discovered this by accident or trial-and-error, and had little to no understanding of why it worked, or how. But they knew that it did. 1/?
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And that practical/empirical knowledge often precedes scientific knowledge in this manner. Humans stumble into things, and then only later through experimentation and observation, discover the underlying mechanisms.
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I love the "hidden islands of stability" concept, particularly since these are hypothesized to exist among certain isotopes beyond what we have currently made.
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Also, to my knowledge, that has not been done. Tolkien had mithril, Sanderson had atium, Star Trek has dilithium, etc. So, fictional metals are frequently used but ulyour idea, so far as I know, is unique
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