[TheForge] Nano-Manufacturing Makes Steel 10 Times Stronger

[rfertner at cox.net]

I agree. I wonder how hard to remove, like with acid or burning it  in a brush pile? Or are you going to have to just grind it off?
Maybe it'll be too tough and not practical to reuse in smithing. That would make all the scroungers sad.

Rob
Wichita, ks
---- Saint Phlip <saintphlip at gmail.com> wrote: 
> Looks to me like a variant of plating, or case hardening.
> 
> On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 7:25 AM, Rob Fertner <rfertner at cox.net> wrote:
> 
> > I wonder when we start finding this stuff in the scrap pile...
> >
> >
> > http://www.technologyreview.com/news/534796/nano-manufacturing-makes-steel-1
> > 0-times-stronger/
> >
> >
> > Rob
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> Heat it up
> Hit it hard
> Repent as necessary.
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