This. The best way to stop a contamination from ruining your material, if you have no way to purify the material in bulk, is to spread the contamination to the entire material, so that it does not become a singular point of failure. Plus, by folding a thousand times, you increase the possibility of accidentally forcing nodes of contamination to the material’s surface, allowing it to burn off in the forging process.
This. The best way to stop a contamination from ruining your material, if you have no way to purify the material in bulk, is to spread the contamination to the entire material, so that it does not become a singular point of failure. Plus, by folding a thousand times, you increase the possibility of accidentally forcing nodes of contamination to the material’s surface, allowing it to burn off in the forging process.