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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
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STEEL, or
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DAMASCUS STEEL  , a
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steel with a
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peculiar watered or streaked
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appearance, as seen in the
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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
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iron and steel of different quality and then weld them into a solid
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mass . A similar but inferior result may be obtained by
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etching with
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acid the
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surface of a
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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
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period, the most famous blades having come from
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Isfahan,
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Khorasan, and
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Shiraz in
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Persia .

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