2007 Product Guide by Spyderco
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[Page 47] - steel for as long as he s been working iron ironworkers learned to make steel by ... heating wrought iron and charcoal a source of carbon in clay ... of several days by this process the iron absorbed enough carbon to become a true ... steel iron by itself is a relatively soft metal it ... if you add carbon it hardens the iron making steel steel has proven to be ... that you desire you begin with flour iron and from there you add various ... [Page 48] - new type of steel steel is an alloy of iron and carbon just as bronze is an alloy ... are melted and dissolved into molten iron to make steel the molten steel is cast ... the process starts out the same as wrought steels alloying elements are added ... and dissolved into molten iron then comes the main difference the ... into the crystalline molecules of the iron which have expanded due to the heating ... |