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DAMASK STEEL, or DAMASCUS STEEL

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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 786 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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DAMASK STEEL, or
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DAMASCUS STEEL
  , a steel with a
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peculiar watered or streaked appearance, as seen in the blades of
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fine swords and other weapons of
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Oriental manufacture . One way of producing this appearance is to twist together strips of iron and steel of different quality and then weld them into a solid mass . A similar but inferior result may be obtained by etching with acid the
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surface of a metal; parts of which are protected by some greasy substance in such a way as to give the watered
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pattern desired . The
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art of producing
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damask steel has been generally practised in Oriental countries from a remote period, the most famous blades having come from Isfahan, Khorasan, and
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Shiraz in
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Persia .

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