I’m just an amateur guy who messed with metal on occasion
And straight up not following the logic
I know heating and quenching makes it harder, which is good for knives and such, but also makes it more brittle I guess? And likely to crack?
The descriptions on this subject are literally “over explaining the scientific molecular composition of metal” or “so anyway make hot then make un hot, dat good”
But I was trying to bend some metal today, heated it up a few times and got it near its shape, then cooled it by quenching so no one would grab it and burn their hands on it while I stepped away, came back and heated again and it just broke lol
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Btw, if you want to learn more about this and related stuff, in a book focused much more on the practical side of “why” not just showing you some heavy engineering math and being like “because math says so”,. Then this book is goddamn amazing – [New Science of Strong Materials: Or Why You Don’t Fall through the Floor: 58 : Gordon, James Edward, Ball, Philip: Amazon.com.au: Books](https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/0691180989?ref_=mr_referred_us_au_nz)
Literally a “Curious laymans guide to why basically every material does the things it does and how we worked that out”
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