Jambon and his team discovered four iron pieces containing “heavenly metal,” as they called it, including two bracelets, an ankle ring and a pin. The pieces had varying levels of meteoritic iron, ...

Fragments of copper alloy unearthed at one of Britain's most important archaeology sites have been revealed to be parts of an incredibly rare Iron Age helmet. The discovery was made by the British ...

This piece of the medal contains fragments of iron that were removed from the Eiffel Tower and preserved during renovations in the 20th century. The outer part of the medal is meant to catch the light ...

Wrought iron wire :— Twenty pieces of iron, weighing 374 grains, mmersed for SO days in fresh waters lost 1"9 grains, A similar experiment in sea water, lost 2'6 grains, A similar experiment in ...

The business end of the iron is a normal soldering iron bit, but behind it is a piece of sintered silicon carbide wrapped in ceramic fibre and covered with Kapton tape and a high-temperature-resin ...

SNETTISHAM, ENGLAND—Metal fragments previously thought to be part of a vessel are actually pieces of an Iron Age helmet, according to a BBC News report. Conservator Fleur Shearman of the British ...

Iron meteorites may be large (hundreds of kg), but this may actually be a problem. Large pieces are not workable, and you need to separate small pieces (less than one kg), which is hardly possible ...