Today I will show you a technology that forever changed the destiny of mankind. We will be making copper like the ancients and doing a little home smelting to get copper metal out of copper ore. Even from the earliest days, mankind appreciated the beauty of copper minerals and made those stones into some of his first jewelry and art. Among some of the pretty blue and green copper minerals, he also found this odd red metal substance that that was really useful and could be beaten into things like knives, axes and hammers. But there wasn’t much of it. In time he learned he could melt it and combine little pieces that were too small into a larger one. It is likely that in melting it, he discovered that he could turn those pretty blue and green rocks into that really useful red metal. When we made that discovery, mankind changed forever and we progressed from the Stone Age to the Copper age (and not long afterwards into the bronze age). Today we will repeat that same discovery and show how this very primitive technology works to turn pretty minerals into copper metal. Copper was the first metal smelted out from an ore and we will be doing some smelting at home with these rocks.
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21 ноя 2020
