re: #625 klys

The paper I just returned the proofs on was all about using different cooling rates to manipulate what temperature the structure was locked in at so that we could look at what effect temperature has on the structure with an eye towards extrapolating the information up towards temperatures of interest to geologists and materials scientists.

So I spent quite a while buried in this topic. :)

I know very little about that sort of science, but isn’t manipulating the cooling rate key to manufacturing, for example, steel of various characteristics? I was watching something on the creation of Damascus steel - not laminated Damascus, but what’s also known as ‘Wootz’ steel, and IIRC it was all about not only the composition but the temperatures and cooling rate.