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controlled violence against ore until it admits it was always meant to be a sword.
means The craft of shaping metal — by hammering, casting, cutting, welding, or forging — into tools, weapons, jewelry, or structures.
from A plain English compound of "metal" and "work." "Metal" came through Old French from Latin "metallum" (a mine or quarry, and the ore dug from it), itself borrowed from Greek "metallon." "Work" is solidly Germanic, traceable to Old English "weorc" and a Proto-Germanic root for labor and deeds — a cousin of Greek "ergon," the same root hiding inside "energy" and "organ." So the word is exactly what it claims: labor performed upon mined stuff, a partnership between a Mediterranean mine and a Germanic sweat.
- Damascus secret
- Legendary steel patterns came partly from trace Indian vanadium
- Cold welding
- Two clean metals fuse in space with no heat
- Lost wax
- 6,000-year-old casting method still used for jet turbines
- Quench shock
- Hot steel plunged into oil locks atoms mid-panic
- Tin cry
- Bending pure tin makes it audibly scream
damasucus steel — sword blades from medieval syria and persia with distinctive wavy patterns from layered metal folding
ming dynasty bronze vessels — ritual bronze ceremonial objects cast in china 1368-1644 with intricate surface designs
limoges enamelware — decorative copper enamel pieces produced in limoges france since the 12th century