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About red heat
In blacksmithing, red heat is the practice of using colours to determine the temperature of a piece of metal. Long before thermometers were widely available, it was necessary to know what state the metal was in for heat treating it, and the only way to do this was to heat it up to a colour which was known to be best for the work.
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