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Post by kidcasanova on Jan 6, 2008 6:14:57 GMT
So I've never seen a discussion about this (and probably for good reason), but would it be possible to make a decent steel from iron pyrite/fools gold?
I think it would be extremely attractive to have a blade like this made (even if only to hang on the wall, really).
I know it has sulfur in it, which is why it has that golden hue. I don't know how the sulfur content affects the metal though.
Just throwing out something that I was thinking about the other day (while looking at my own piece of iron pyrite).
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Post by Matt993f.o.d on Jan 6, 2008 15:51:05 GMT
From my VERY limited knowledge of chemistry, I would guess that the sulphur would be really hard to separate from the iron. If it were possible, there would still be no point since iron is much easier to extract from normal iron ore.
Sulphur gives the iron a large crystal, crumbly structure (in iron pyrite, at least). Turning it into a blade would be next to impossible.
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Post by kidcasanova on Jan 7, 2008 5:51:55 GMT
That's what I thought I would hear. It's disappointing, because that hue is really attractive. But what can you do? Haha
Thanks Matt.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 8, 2008 4:08:58 GMT
Decoration for the scabbard I think is the best you could hope to achieve... and well, that's not the worse of ideas I was thinking pommel, but I think it's probably too weak even for that.
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Post by swordboy bringer of chaos on Jan 8, 2008 4:55:30 GMT
yeah it would fail and the blade would be a projectile
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Post by Matt993f.o.d on Jan 8, 2008 9:37:22 GMT
Its all soft and crumbly that I don't even reckon it would be possible to use it for decoration. Good for nowt but rocks, methinks.
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