element

Steel

Elements · Colors & materials

Iron hardened with carbon into a named working metal. Not iron as the softer parent, and not a generic blade dump.

Roman religion

  • Steel appears in Roman religion.

    Pliny’s Natural History treats hardened iron and temper speech among metals of Roman learning. A named steel/hard-iron craft in that encyclopedia, not iron as the soft metal alone and not a modern alloy dump.

    from Pliny the Elder · Natural History, c. 77 CE

    appears in · sourced · documented

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