Talk:Bulat steel

The article mentions that Bulat steel involves a slow cooling process, and that Anosov began with the intent of producing it by quenching. This implies that Anosov learned that quenching doesn't work, but it was phrased as "in retrospect," which suggests that it wasn't known until recently. Would someone research this further, and make the article self-consistent?--Polyparadigm 01:03, 4 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Origins?

How long ago was this steel used in Rus? How old are the oldest samples of it? The Jade Knight 02:25, 28 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

removed "This means that the latest invention in kitchen tools - ceramic knives - is not all that original.". As it is hardly a good argument to say that because steels contain both iron and iron carbide (ferrite and cementite) that it renders the use of completely different materials such as zirconia (or zirconium oxide if you want a longer less lay-averse nomenclature) somehow unoriginal. By such measure it would mean that the use of stones somehow makes the use of metals as tools obsolete, as clearly stones are made of ores which are basically oxides (i.e. ceramics), and because the use of these oxides precludes the use of steels, clearly steels are unoriginal. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.137.179.95 (talk) 05:26, 3 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]