Which risk increased significantly when bronze replaced copper in ancient saws used for quarrying limestone?

💡 Explanation

Faster blade fatigue cracking occurred, due to bronze's greater susceptibility to work hardening; the repeated stress caused microfractures that propagated because strain hardening, rather than self-annealing, dominated. Therefore, saws cracked more quickly rather than remaining flexible, compared to copper.

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