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posted by n1 on Friday May 19 2017, @05:44AM   Printer-friendly
from the that-name-again-is-mr.-plow dept.

Submitted via IRC for Runaway1956

Chinese metal scientists announced they had developed a plow using a new steel alloy.

Plow was initially used in China over 2,000 years ago, centuries earlier than in Europe. However, Chinese farmers nowadays would rather pay over the odds for imported plows because of their better quality and durability.

The situation may soon change, thanks to the new research.

Yan Desheng, of the Institute of Metal Research under the Chinese Academy of Sciences, said the new metal was developed on the basis of boron steel, with micro-alloying elements and fine carbide added, so as to increase its hardness while keeping its high ductility.

The new material had been used to make over 1,000 farming tools, such as moldboard plows and rotary blades.

Source: China.org.cn


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  • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 19 2017, @08:36AM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 19 2017, @08:36AM (#512086)

    Runaway is the Last Soylentil. After everyone else has left, realizing there is no point in talking to him and Ethanol_funded, Runaway will still be here, because he cannot be stopped, he will continue to post, even though he has been proven wrong on each and every point he makes, even though no one besides Donald agrees with him, and even though he is being surrounded by anchor babies of his own lineage. . . Runaway will abide. Soon, there will be a SoylentNews with only one member, and that member will try to Runaway, but it will not be able to. The sound of its own idiocy will call it back, like Lorelei calling herself back again to the post. We await you wisdom, Runaway, we who are you. For there are no others left.

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  • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 19 2017, @09:06AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 19 2017, @09:06AM (#512093)

    I just like to watch, as the complaints roll in, and Runaway's supply of down-mods runs out. Yes, he is still a net-negative for SoylentNews, and he may even pretend to have a posse, but every time the down mods cease about the time any one user's supply would be exhausted. So it is just Runaway. Poor, poor, poor Runaway, left talking to himself, again. But, you know what they say!~

    • (Score: 3, Informative) by kurenai.tsubasa on Friday May 19 2017, @03:22PM

      by kurenai.tsubasa (5227) on Friday May 19 2017, @03:22PM (#512221) Journal

      Runaway isn't the only person with mod points.

      When I was little, sometimes my grandpa would let me ride in his tractor with him. I have an interest in this topic, although I have about the same level of knowledge about farming as quantum mechanics. Don't fool yourself that farming isn't a complicated and technical profession.