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<blockquote data-quote="Greenfield" data-source="post: 5666982" data-attributes="member: 6669384"><p>Spring steel existed in medieval times. What didn't was stainless steel.</p><p></p><p>Short course on metalurgy: Add carbon to iron, get steel.</p><p></p><p>Add enough carbon to iron, add heat and cool quickly, and get hardened steel. Temper with care, get spring steel.</p><p></p><p>Add nickel to steel, get stainless. The more nickel, the more "stainless" it becomes.</p><p></p><p>Problem: The alloy won't take both carbon and nickel at the same time. The more nickel, the less carbon it can hold, so the ability to develop spring steel fades as it becomes more rust resistant. Eventually the ability to even harden it goes away.</p><p></p><p>So a metal you could add to steel to make it "stainless" without reducing its ability to hold carbon, and thus be capable of hardening...</p><p></p><p>... would be worth a lot.</p><p></p><p>Make it the site of a meteor strike, hence the unique supply. Add legends about the metal of the gods, embers from the Forge of Creation or what have you.</p><p></p><p>Or, make it as hard as Adamantine but without that "twice the weight of iron" issue, and thus favored for armor. Note that it <em>isn't</em> adamantine, so it isn't anything special when it comes to bypassing DR.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Greenfield, post: 5666982, member: 6669384"] Spring steel existed in medieval times. What didn't was stainless steel. Short course on metalurgy: Add carbon to iron, get steel. Add enough carbon to iron, add heat and cool quickly, and get hardened steel. Temper with care, get spring steel. Add nickel to steel, get stainless. The more nickel, the more "stainless" it becomes. Problem: The alloy won't take both carbon and nickel at the same time. The more nickel, the less carbon it can hold, so the ability to develop spring steel fades as it becomes more rust resistant. Eventually the ability to even harden it goes away. So a metal you could add to steel to make it "stainless" without reducing its ability to hold carbon, and thus be capable of hardening... ... would be worth a lot. Make it the site of a meteor strike, hence the unique supply. Add legends about the metal of the gods, embers from the Forge of Creation or what have you. Or, make it as hard as Adamantine but without that "twice the weight of iron" issue, and thus favored for armor. Note that it [I]isn't[/I] adamantine, so it isn't anything special when it comes to bypassing DR. [/QUOTE]
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