Mystery of Delhi's Iron Pillar Unraveled - Metallurgists at Kanpur IIT have discovered that a thin layer of misawite, a compound of iron, oxygen and hydrogen, has protected the 1,600-year-old cast iron pillar from rust.

		Tuesday, 7 October, 2008
		Home \| Submit Science Site \| Add to Favorite \| Contact

for

Directories

Aeronautics and Aerospace

Agriculture

Anomalies and Alternative Science

Educational Resources

Instruments and Supplies

Math

Medical Science

Methods and Techniques

Category: Science » Social Sciences » Archaeology » Regional

UPDATE URL | REPORT BROKEN LINK

Mystery of Delhi's Iron Pillar Unraveled

Popularity:

Hit: 61 | Visit: 2

Details

	Metallurgists at Kanpur IIT have discovered that a thin layer of misawite, a compound of iron, oxygen and hydrogen, has protected the 1,600-year-old cast iron pillar from rust. Sponsored Links:
URL:
Title:	Mystery of Delhi's Iron Pillar unraveled
Description:	Metallurgists at Kanpur IIT have discovered that a thin layer of "
Category:	India - Heritage

Related sites

The Sasanians in Africa (Popularity:

): Discusses the history of late Sasanian Persia's encounters with the African people. Includes images and ...
Report on the 2003 Poznan Symposium (Popularity:

): Offers brief summaries of the proceedings of the conference on the prehistory of northern Africa.
African Archaeology (Popularity:

): Explores the theories of the evolutionary tree of humans and the classification of the fossils ...
Archaeology of Africa (Popularity:

): Offers information from research programs in Namibia and the eastern Sahara. Includes images, profiles and ...
The Spread of Cattle Domestication Among the Mande Speaking People (Popularity:

): Offers a hypothesis based on evidence of the spread of the Proto-Mande from the Saharan ...
African Archaeology - the World Wide Web Virtual Library (Popularity:

): Offers links to field data, documentation, networking, institutions, universities, and SAFA, the Society of Africanist ...
Odyssey in Egypt (Popularity:

): Excavation in 1996 by Dr. Scott Carroll and Dr. Bas Van Elderen of the Monastery ...
Karanis: An Egyptian Town in Roman Times (Popularity:

): Discoveries of the excavation by the University of Michigan (1924-1935) of this village that existed ...
The Antiquity of Man (Popularity:

): A comprehensive academic website covering the Predynastic and Early Dynastic Periods of Egypt, hominid evolution, ...
Ancient Spice Route Between Egypt and India (Popularity:

): Popular Science reports that archaeologists have unearthed at Berenike on the Red Sea the most ...

Home | Submit Science Site | Add to Favorite | Privacy | Contact