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jojomayer t1_j7m0q1x wrote

It says carbon has been known since ancient times. What does this mean? How did people know of it? I'm guessing they knew how it affected things?

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Belzedar136 t1_j7n8dmt wrote

Well like with steel smelting. You need to add carbon to the iron making g process and they knew you needed charcoal and coal to get that going which is where I assume this comes from ?

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