On Fri, 30 Jun 2006 11:58:05 GMT, "Amanda Angelika"
<manic_mandy@hotmail.com> wrote in alt.fan.art-bell in message
<hl8pg.6734$v4.780@newsfe3-win.ntli.net>:

Well actually mild steel tends to harden when subjected to heat, but will
lose it's tensile strength if overheated and become brittle. I know this
since as an artist. I once made some specialist wood engraving tools from
4in mild steel nails shaped them using a file and tempered the tips over a
domestic gas stove. You see a spectrum of colours when you heat a nail in
that way and have to cool it in water when the tip hits blue.

You can't say all steel would lose half it's strength at 650C since there
are many different types of steel with different levels of carbon and even
other metals which  can be made to respond to heat in different ways.

You are clearly a complete dipshit, and the thought of you being
allowed to have sharp objects is strangely comforting, as long as no
one else is around you at the time.
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