During the Song Dynasty, which combustion outcome increased substantially when casting cannons using high-carbon cast iron?

💡 Explanation

Increased carbon reduces iron ductility, therefore the coefficient of thermal expansion causes higher stress under rapidly-increasing chamber pressure during the process of ignition. Because of thermal stress induced brittle fracture around casting flaws, canon bursting probability therefore became great a major problem, rather than velocity or time based differences.

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