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Welcome to the cocky ride home for Wednesday, September 23rd, 2020.

I'm Jackson Bird.

A new discovery indicates chromium is about a thousand years older than we thought.

Why it's sometimes better not to use your full potential on things, a group of chefs trying to make

drive-through fine dining a thing, and an Anola Holmes PR stunt from Netflix that's shining

a light on women's representation. Here are some of the cool things from the news today.

Chromium steel, like the kind often used in stainless steel, was thought to have been a modern

innovation, only being discovered by Westerners in the 1700s and incorporated into manufacturing

in the 1800s.

But archaeologists have just discovered chromium in Persia, dating back almost a thousand years.

New research published in the Journal of Archaeological Science, summarizing over a decade of research and expeditions, has found evidence of chromium in a 900-year-old crucible.

Now, this isn't the same as chrome,

or even stainless steel as we would think of it in modern times. The crucible only contained

around 1 to 2% chromium. But even that small amount does show, quoting the paper,

the earliest evidence for the consistent and intentional addition of a chromium mineral, most likely chromite, to the crucible steel charge, resulting in the intentional production of a low chromium steel, end quote.

And quoting Gizmodo, a translation of medieval Persian manuscripts led the research team to Shahak, an archaeological site in southern Iran.

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