Why wootz steel and/or damascus sword had macroscopic watermark laminar pattern?

30 December 2019 0 6K Report

Steel can have ferrite and pearlite, but they are microscopically distinguished only after etching. rolling of modern day steel sheets also do not have such watermark pattern in general. What caused those watermarks?

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