Forging ahead

• Autores: James Mitchell Crow
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3095, 2016, págs. 34-37
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • One of the oldest shipwrecks ever discovered lies off the southern coast of Turkey. First glimpsed by a young sponge diver in 1982, it was carrying a curious cargo: 9 tonnes of copper and 1 tonne of tin. A curious cargo, that is, unless people know the recipe for bronze. The Uluburun wreck, named after a nearby town, dates from 1300 BC, smack in the middle of the Bronze Age. Today, arguably, people live in the steel age, but the principle underlying their defining material remains the same. Here, Crow discusses the modern way of making alloy