![]() While Ancient Iron workers didn't understand the chemistry that they were performing the result is that the Carbon from their forges was combining with the Iron to form Steel. At ideal mixtures of Carbon and Iron this is known as Pearlite, or more commonly Steel. ![]() If you were to then rapidly cool the Iron (a process known as Quench Hardening), the result is a mixture of Alpha and Beta phases. As heated Iron shifts from Alpha to Gamma phase, the change to face-centered cubic allows for carbon to be dissolved into the lattice structure of the Austenite. If Iron is heated with wood (or other Carbon burning heat source) some percentage of that carbon will make its way into the Iron. This is usually called Austenite or Gamma Phase. This is the reason that we heat Iron to work it into shape and the reason that the burning of wood or jet engine fuel (while not normally hot enough to melt Iron) can cause a massive Steel supported structure to collapse. Above 727☌ Ferrite changes its crystalline structure from body-centred cubic to the face-centred cubic thus losing 70% of its strength. This is sometimes referred to as Beta phase Iron, where as Fe separated from C is usually referred to as Ferrite or Alpha Phase. Iron bonds with the carbon to create FeĬ, or Cementite. To create steel you need two components: Iron and Carbon. Though we separate this from the usage of Steel in the 17th century onwards, because the Steel made during the Iron age was largely Iron wrapped in a few Micrometers of Steel. When we historically refer to the Iron Age, we're referring to a period where Iron was used in industry, however, the specific usage was as Steel. Both the Roman Military and the Chinese of the Han dynasty used steel as a source to make weapons out of, though through very different techniques. Historically, Steel dates back to the 4th Century BC (though there have been archeological finds as early as 4000BC). I've reproduce it for you here so I can make reference to it: I don't mean more abundant, or easier to use, I actually mean harder.įor those of you who don't have the time to understand basic metallurgy I'm going to explain how Iron was used during the Iron Age, why it was stronger than Bronze and debunk the myth that the WTC was a conspiracy by the US government, but that last one is incidental.īack when I took Solid State Chemistry at Northwestern, they made us memorize the Iron rich end of the Iron/Carbon phase diagram. Unfortunately he really failed to explain why At first I figured Less' answer was good enough because everything he said was correct, specifically So this question asks whether or not it is accurate that bronze armor is stronger that iron armor in the game and in the real world.
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