The rise of the Iron Age —and the complete shift in the way the world worked that it caused—was likely an accident. And ...
New research suggests ancient copper smelters accidentally discovered iron, sparking the technological shift that transformed ...
Research from Cranfield University sheds new light onto the transition from the Bronze Age to the Iron Age, showing how ...
Copper smelters once used iron oxide to refine copper, unintentionally advancing the path toward iron metallurgy. Research conducted at Cranfield University provides new insight into the shift from ...
Ancient copper smelters may have accidentally set the stage for the Iron Age. At a 3,000-year-old workshop in Georgia, ...
Copper smelting is an intricate high‐temperature process that converts copper concentrates into purer metallic copper through a series of chemical and thermal reactions. Central to modern smelting ...
The dig site was originally analyzed in the 1950s, when archeologists found an iron oxide mineral called hematite and a waste ...
Copper smelting - a critical process in metal production - often generates slag, which contains valuable metals. This slag has historically been thrown away, causing harm to the environment and ...
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