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Rehder, J.E. (2006). ''The Mastery and Uses of Fire in Antiquity''. McGill-Queen's University Press. ISBN 0773530746. | * Rehder, J.E. (2006). ''The Mastery and Uses of Fire in Antiquity''. McGill-Queen's University Press. ISBN 0773530746. | ||
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Revision as of 19:19, 28 August 2022
Smelting is the process of applying heat to ore in order to extract a base metal. In the case of copper, combining tin and/or arsenic in the right proportions produces bronze, an alloy that is significantly harder than copper.
Process
Normally, a natural draft furnace using wood, a kiln, can up to 1400 Celsius degrees (or 2552 Fahrenheit), while a furnace that uses fuel such as charcol can reach temperatures up to 1600 °C degrees.[1]
See also
External links
- Prehistoric copper smelting in a pit!, ancient1580, 25 May 2012, YouTube
Further reading
- Rehder, J.E. (2006). The Mastery and Uses of Fire in Antiquity. McGill-Queen's University Press. ISBN 0773530746.
References
| This article uses material from the Wikipedia article Smelting, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License (view authors). | 
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- ↑ Making Charcoal - primitivetechnology.wordpress.com, 19 February 2016. Retrieved on 28 August 2022