#there were swords smiths that sought russian steel/iron that had higher melt points for stronger blades
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Orichalcum is rose gold and mithril is platinum-steel. Fight me.
Plato makes up Atlantis as an allegory and over 2,000 years later people are still looking for it. You might as well be looking for Narnia.
#poperties of metal#and where the mythological stories correlate to real stories'#there were swords smiths that sought russian steel/iron that had higher melt points for stronger blades#turns out that there was a platinum vein in an iron mine#might have been “sky steel”?#didnt save the source to book marks :(#electrum is what you get when you mix silver gold and copper together#green gold is just silver and gold#white gold has nickle
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