Secret of Damascus Steel Revealed

[aquina]

For those of you who can read German:

http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/mensch/0,1518,448539,00.html

Interesting article talking about presence of nano tubes in ancient Damascus blades.

 

[Keith Montgomery]

This article probably has much of the same information.

http://www.nature.com/news/2006/061113/full/061113-11.html

 

[aquina]

This article probably has much of the same information.

http://www.nature.com/news/2006/061113/full/061113-11.html

Thanks for the link to the English language article. The German report goes into greater detail of the ores and treatment of the steel that result in the formation of the nano tubes but you'll get the drift from the English one.