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Old 5th February 2016, 08:12 AM   #28
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Originally Posted by estcrh
It is interesting, how could you have so many steel manufacturers making a product for so long and yet people were said to be scurrying everywere to find out how exactly it was made.....and then the method was seemingly lost?????
My friend, this is an error - assume that Anosov sought "secret of wootz", traveling to India or Persia. Anosov was - researcher. Anosov studied samples of wootz steel samples which were brought from India, Persia and Central Asia for him. And on the basis of the studied samples of wootz, he developed his own method of smelting wootz steel.

Moreover, note that Ariel wrote:

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Originally Posted by ariel
... in 1841 captain Massalski published full description of the process he observed in "Persia" ...
It says that in 1841 continued to produce wootz and it was not kept secret.
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