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• Maggoty@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The comparison was iron and bronze. Not steel and bronze.

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  • Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    There was never a time when iron was used in a major way until they figured out how to make steel. So technically it was always the steel age, not the iron age.

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  • Zorque@kbin.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Steel, I believe, needs much higher temperatures and purified inputs.

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    • Maggoty@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      And?

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      • Zorque@kbin.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        ... and steel was brought up.

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• HenriVolney@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Bronze is better at making musical instruments, and who doesn’t need a trumpet or a tuba nowadays?

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