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The authors published a paper in this journal in 19981 titled “The Key Role of Impurities in Ancient Damascus Steel Blades.” Because of the continued popularity of the on-line version of this paper,2 additional experiments were conducted on some three-century old Damascus bars. The results of those experiments are reported in this paper.
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Verhoeven, J.D., Pendray, A.H. & Dauksch, W.E. The continuing study of damascus steel: Bars from the alwar armory. JOM 56, 17–20 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11837-004-0193-4
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