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noncoml • last Wednesday at 11:10 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

Nope. It wasn’t pure iron. It was lightly carbonized iron.

Also you are talking about Iron Age. Which came after and as a consequence of the Bronze Age.

Pure iron is utterly useless as a weapon. Look it up.


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bryanlarsen • yesterday at 1:45 AM

Fair. I used "pure iron" when I meant "not steel".