[decimon]

Wootz happening ping.

[sodpoodle]

It is fascinating to wonder when the first human accidentally created metal from ore, or glass from silica.

Do we know when this first occurred and how?

Did our ancestors find ingots after a volcanic eruption and figure out the formula?

[olepap]

An elaborate fictionalized description of Wootz steel manufacture is presented in Neal Stephenson’s historical science fiction The Confusion, part of Stephenson’s three-volume work The Baroque Cycle.

[SunkenCiv]

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