#metallurgy

[facts-i-just-made-up]

Opinions on destiel?

De stiel is de finitely de strongest of de metals.

#destiel #supernatural #metallurgy #science #unreality

[gwleddgymreig]

A Promise Kept by Georgia Gerber, 1999

#rabbit #statue #contemporary art #metallurgy #bronze sculpture

[balladedutempsjadis]

I don’t post about this on Tumblr but I have a huge (amateur) interest in materials science, so imagine my delight in learning that South India in the early medieval period was quite a center of advanced metallurgy. In addition to the amazing Chola bronzes (and their casting techniques), extremely high-quality carbon steel weaponry was produced in Southern India (Tamil Nadu first but also Golconda later on) centuries before it became famous as “Damascus” steel. Exports of “Wootz” steel from India, famous for both its strength and the sharpness of the blades made from it, were shaped by Arab sword makers (particularly in Damascus) and because Western Europeans were more likely to encounter Damascus steel than Tamil Nadu steel the name Damascus stuck.

Anyway, the sword that Aditha Karikalan gives to Vandiyadevan is really the most modern and effective weapons technology of its day. The cutting edge, if you can pardon the terrible pun. I would imagine that a sword from the Royal armory is even more top-notch than your common steel sword.

These swords had beautiful patterns in the blade from the carbon deposits that gave the steel its strength and ability to be honed to the extra-sharp setting.

I don’t know whether George R R Martin has mentioned Damascus steel as an inspiration for his magical Valyrian steel but it definitely seems to have inspired it (the patterns in the blade, their sharpness and strength.)

(The above is all my amateur’s understanding so if anyone knows more about this, I am very happy to be corrected :) I was just wondering what the Chola weaponry would have been made of, whether they would use steel, bronze, iron, etc and lo and behold, there’s a whole fascinating world of ancient metallurgy out there.)

#metallurgy #materials science #a song of ice and fire #Ponniyin Selvan

[othmeralia]

Happy October!

Decorated initial 'O' from: Musaeum metallicum in libros IIII (1648) by Ulisse Aldrovandi.

#october #letter o #decorated initial #floriated initial #woodcuts #rare books #old books #metallurgy #natural history #spooky season #i love halloween #othmeralia

[supplyside]

Metallurgist working by the blast furnaces in Třinec Iron and Steel Works, Czech Republic

#Metallurgy #blast furnace #Třinec Iron and Steel Works #Czech #Czech Republic #steel mill #manufacturing

[materialsscienceandengineering]

Slag

A general term for the waste produced during smelting, slag mainly consists of oxides, though the exact composition depends on the metals and minerals being processed. Essentially, during smelting, two things are produced: the target metal/alloy, and its slag. It is typically classified into one of three categories: ferrous (containing iron/generated during iron or steel production); ferroalloy (generated during ferroalloy production); or non-ferrous (essentially, all other smelting processes). Slag is generally disposed of in a solid form in slag dumps, where they can potentially leach toxic or heavy metals into nearby soil and groundwater. The push to recycle slag, or find applications for it, has therefore been increasing in recent years.

Sources/Further Reading: (Images - Wikipedia) (ASMS) (USGS) (2021 book chapter) (2021 article) (2017 article)

#Materials Science #Science #Slag #Waste #Metallurgy #WasteWednesday #2024Daily

[saintsenara]

For the tag game, I wanna know about Metallurgy please and thank you!

thank you, anon! an excellent choice from the work in progress tag game buffet...

metallurgy has the dubious honour of being the first sequel i've ever considered writing...

and it has the lovely @bronzeagepizzeria to thank for its existence, after i ended up chatting to her in the comment section of bookbinding about what the future looked like for the newly-engaged tom and myrtle:

well, lads, sirius black and merope riddle [jr.] enemies-to-lovers is what you are indeed getting.

her elder brothers are torn between amusement and the desire to murder sirius for being a prick, her father is losing his mind at the fact that teenage girls' drama has forced its way into his life [and is able to terrify sirius much more effortlessly than any of his sons will manage], and her mother remembers all too well the heartache of falling for a boy who is, like all teenage boys, a bit thick.

in between, we get to find out what's happened to tom's career as wizarding britain's premier antiques dealer [i.e. that he spends his time conning cygnus and orion black into selling him priceless valuables for the cost of a sandwich], how myrtle is doing in the department of mysteries, whether that rabbit is still alive, exactly how many ways james, remus, and peter are going to manage to fuck up their pal's attempts to get the girl, what bellatrix's life would be like if she fancied an age-appropriate parselmouth, and how - in a universe where the first war doesn't happen - hogwarts students in the 1970s had plenty of free time they could fill by being complete idiots.

we also get a sighting of a very rare, but extremely enjoyable, version of lord voldemort...

the one where he's a committed wife guy.

#work in progress ask game #asenora fics #metallurgy #tom riddle x myrtle warren #tyrtle nation reassemble #bookbinding #... is getting a sequel lads!

[miamaimania]

Timeless Elegance: Johann Possdorfer's European Sculpture and Decorative Art Watch, Gifted by J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

#j. pierpont morgan #johann possdorfer #european art #metallurgy #art #contemporary #watchmaking #sculpture #1900s

[wikipediapictures]

Maraging steel

#maraging #metallurgy #wikipedia #wikipedia pictures #fire #hot #steel #steel products #steel production #maraging steels #steels

[lennyinlordran]

A Metallurgy Question

So, I've been writing a series of short stories, The "Sasha Abthoth" Series.

I'm considering possibilities for various weaknesses to give him.

I decided on Giving him a weakness to fictional metal I'll call "Naquadah", The metal in question being described as "Purple-Rose-Gold". This would be an alloy, An intermetallic Compound, That is, At first, Only manufactured on Kepler 22-b.

Note that both Purple-Gold and Rose-Gold exist already as actual Intermetallic Compounds.

So, I'm wondering, could this "Purple-Rose Gold" actually be synthesized as an Intermetallic Compound?

Say, Chemical Formula CuAuAl2, or Au2Al2AuCu2?

If this is Chemically Impossible or some such, please let me know.

While I'm perfectly willing to write fish men that predate mankind, I'm not going to butcher the chemistry for a fantasy metal "Just because"

#metallurgy #science #chemistry #questions

[ancientorigins]

Archaeologists from DigVentures have made an extraordinary find in the English countryside: an Iron Age blacksmith workshop dating back to 770-515 BC, nestled in the heart of Oxfordshire. This rare discovery reveals the advanced craftsmanship of one of Britain's earliest master blacksmiths, complete with bellow protectors and tiny metal fragments - remnants of a bygone era where red-hot iron was skillfully transformed.

#blacksmith #Iron Age #England #metallurgy

[ancientstuff]

Ancient trade patterns fascinate me, and this is pretty amazing.

#archaeology #Benin Bronzes #colonialism #antiquities theft #metallurgy #tacoais

[slacktivist]

SOME OF THOSE THAT WORK FORCES.

ARE THE SAME THAT BURN CROSSES.

Keep watching, keep learning, keep speaking about the crimes against humanity committed by the world's wealthy elite. Just because you sleep comfortably does not make you innocent. The powerful and plentiful of the EU and North America fund the crises in Palestine, in Congo, and in Sudan.

Do NOT desensitise yourself to atrocities committed around the globe, do NOT over-consume traumatic and disturbing materials of human suffering, do NOT stop at reblogging, and DO NOT DISENGAGE OR DROP-OUT. DO keep reading about the history, listen to the words spoken by the people on the ground and who are there, bring it up at the dinner table, normalise politics in the tearoom, spread kindness, wellness and be grateful for what you have.

#colonialism #post capitalism #indigenous #palestine #sudan #congo #rare earth minerals #metallurgy #open science #open access #new zealand #aotearoa #conservative #judaism #islam #christianity #catholocism #bureaucrats #stratification #gentrification #fauxmoi

[meriol-lehmann]

montée de la pomme-d'or, contrecoeur

#topographies #industrial #industry #metallurgy #siderurgy #drone photography

[warsofasoiaf]

So, we know that the Westerlands entire economy is mineral based and fueled by their gold mines, which have been operating for a thousand plus years. Do you think any Westerlord has paused for a moment to wonder what is gonna happen when there isn’t a single nugget left? The Westerling family’s gold mines stopped producing and look how quickly they fell to ruin.

The Westerlands isn't exclusively mineral-based. They have farms (probably with high clay soil so cabbages, beans, and fruit trees, but also cereal grains) and ranches like any other medieval economy, as well as industries like pewter.

If it's anything like our own history, I'd imagine that they would be looking to discover new lodes and be developing technology to help improve mining yields such as improving draining techniques with horsepower and developing parting techniques to help separate out gold and other desirable metals. Of course, these innovations were later than the technological era that Westeros is at - this became a bigger concern during the Late Middle Ages when the more accessible veins of ore were starting to get tapped out.

Thanks for the question, Anon.

SomethingLikeALawyer, Hand of the King

#mining #metallurgy #the westerlands

[whats-in-a-sentence]

Table 13.4 on the next page provides a summary of the chemical species and processes involved in the metallurgy of many transition metals.

"Chemistry" 2e - Blackman, A., Bottle, S., Schmid, S., Mocerino, M., Wille, U.

#book quotes #chemistry #nonfiction #textbook #metallurgy #transition metal #titanium #chromium #manganese #iron #cobalt #nickel #copper #zinc #molybdenum #tungsten #gold #mercury #magnesium #aluminum #carbon #hydrogen #sulfur #chlorination #roasting #slag #leaching #complexation