Making steel in Aristotle furnace, @officinaferraria

Uploaded September 2020 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago

In this video, I show how to make steel in Aristotle's furnace. In this process, I used a small 12 cm wide furnace, bloomery iron gromps, bloomery iron scrap, and charcoal as a fuel. From 2 kg of low carbon iron, I got 1,7 kg steel bloom.
More abaut this process you can find here: https://www.academia.edu/12967502/Making_Steel_in_the_Aristotle_Furnace_?fbclid=IwAR24V8G19meq0dvFjFe3-NofMHuzkLkxNLAy5N47uaAIweYmXU5YYgFpVTs

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