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Smelting Iron in Africa (A DEMONSTRATION)

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THIS IS A DEMONSTRATION. THIS IS HOW THEY DID IT TWO CENTURIES AGO. NOW THEY BUY THEIR IRON IMPORTED FROM CHINA, JUST AS WE DO. Smelting iron from ore by a smith family in West Africa. The only complete, high quality video of iron smelting in Africa. Making charcoal, digging ore and flux, building the kiln, firing the kiln, sacrifices, smelting the iron, forging the iron into tools. With Chinese subtitles. A CULTURAL RECREATION !! THIS WAS DONE FOR ME TO FILM. THEY DO NOT SMELT IRON LIKE THIS ANYMORE.

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sbseed
sbseed
1 year ago

sheeeiiiittt!!!! they was kangs n pharoahs n scy-ent-tits.... lol

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sbseed
sbseed
1 year ago

yea, one of those "this is how it could have happened" type of things...
at least it is entertaining...

specially the moments where one of the guys is either annoying that someone photo-bombed the scene/shot or checking to see if the scene/shot was done yet lol
high production value on this :D

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sbseed
sbseed
1 year ago

it is actually quite hilarious to see the more modern africans trying to be all traditional for this movie lol

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It's actually pretty authentic - and the modern blast furnaces...... big electric forced air blast, pre heating the air etc.. and the greatest advance was only in the last 20 years or so - to pulverise the lime, the coke and the iron oxide, and them mix them and press them into 3" round balls so the incredients are intimately mixed and the hot air and the combustion process runs at a very high rate as the air blast runs between the balls... the use of the premixed briquets - sped the production of iron up by 20 or 30% on the throughput of blast furnaces... and that was only in the last 20 or 25 years... Where as adding 5 tones of coke, 1 ton of iron oxide and 2 tons of crushed limestone, in cycles like that, just made layers and lead to inefficient combustion, slow heats and constipation of the blast furnaces.... And if you notice, the OLD blast furnaces, were pretty fucking good, but the BIG secret, was the NON STOP air flow... And the people of Afrika - got that sorted out a long time ago.

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