(thing) by jeremy f Fri Sep 01 2000 at 12:21:01
A type of steel made from a single edge of steel welded over itself 16 times, as to create 32,768 homogeneous layers. In doing so, this caused the metal to be extremely durable.

A similar method was used for making Damascus steel blades in later centuries.

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