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Wootz
Wootz Wootz (w[=oo]ts), n. [Perhaps a corruption of Canarese ukku steel.] A species of steel imported from the East Indies, valued for making edge tools; Indian steel. It has in combination a minute portion of alumina and silica.

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- Wootz steel is a crucible steel characterized by a pattern of bands and high carbon content. These bands are formed by sheets of microscopic carbides...
- (Kaman-Kalehöyük) which are nearly 4,000 years old, dating from 1800 BC. Wootz steel was developed in Southern India and Sri Lanka in the 1st millennium...
- middle of the 1st millennium BCE in Southern India and Sri Lanka using the wootz process. In ancient times, it was not possible to produce very high temperatures...
- carbon crucible steel of the blades of historical swords forged using the wootz process in the Near East, characterized by distinctive patterns of banding...
- fūlāḏ by the Arabs (Arabic: فولاذ, romanized: fūlāḏ, lit. 'steel; wootz') and wootz by later Europeans, was exported throughout much of Asia and Europe...
- Genghis Khan. Bulat steel is generally agreed to be a Russian name for wootz steel, the production method of which has been lost for centuries, and the...
- made from a special combination of strong, flexible, sharpened steel (Wootz steel) with a ball-bearing mechanism and therefore requires prior knowledge...
- The first crucible steel was the wootz steel that originated in India before the beginning of the common era. Wootz steel was widely exported and traded...
- wootz steel blade, dated to the late 19th century, with a cleft tip. The curator comments that "fractures in the tip were not uncommon in early wootz...
- Nizams attracted artisans from the region to Hyderabad. Such crafts include: Wootz steel, Filigree work, Bidriware, a metalwork handicraft from neighbouring...