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Ken Fong

Can you etch Damascus steel with muriatic acid?

Sure, you can etch steel with hydrochloric acid; e.g. as per:

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It is an ultra high carbon steel that achieved liquid state which should, theoretically, allow you to get a homogeneous steel product with equal carbon distribution and no slag inclusions at all.

Furthermore if forged in the correct manner you can make swords from it that depicts a pattern often likened to watered silk. This pattern is not the result of forge welding and folding as in pattern welded swords but rather because the chemical composition of the original billet.

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