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To: SunkenCiv

What I want to know is how did someone figure out the proper composition of the alloy of Bronze? Generating enough heat to melt the components together let alone in the proper proportions was no small feat. How did it ever occur to someone that an alloy could be of use at all? How long must it have all taken from the first inkling that it could be done until the time something useful in quantity could be produced?


32 posted on 09/23/2019 11:35:17 AM PDT by Sequoyah101 (We are governed by the consent of the governed and we are fools for allowing it.)
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To: Sequoyah101

What I want to know is how did someone figure out the proper composition of the alloy of Bronze? Generating enough heat to melt the components together let alone in the proper proportions was no small feat. How did it ever occur to someone that an alloy could be of use at all? How long must it have all taken from the first inkling that it could be done until the time something useful in quantity could be produced?

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Not trying to be a smart arse or any such, but I often wonder how many developments like that were the result of a severe manic episode by a bi-polar sufferer.

Some o’ this some o’ that some o’ that there and More! Fire!


39 posted on 10/09/2019 3:19:19 PM PDT by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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