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| Little ray of sunshine  |
I got a gallium cube, but . . . The fish is mute, expressionless. The fish doesn't think because the fish knows everything. | |||
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These days he'd lose his job and get domestic terrorism charges against him  I remember lots of sodium/water "experiments " in HS. Aaahhh... The good old days! | |||
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Almost as Fast as a Speeding Bullet |
I have a set of darts made out of tungsten. I loved those things when I was playing darts a lot. Skinny little things, but just the right heft to them. That cube is cool. ______________________________________________ Aeronautics confers beauty and grandeur, combining art and science for those who devote themselves to it. . . . The aeronaut, free in space, sailing in the infinite, loses himself in the immense undulations of nature. He climbs, he rises, he soars, he reigns, he hurtles the proud vault of the azure sky. — Georges Besançon | |||
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Ammoholic |
My teacher also dropped an alkali metal (sodium or lithium) in water in the classroom. Just a penny sized slice, pretty impressive, I want to throw a softball sized hunk in a pond. Jesse Sic Semper Tyrannis | |||
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| Free men do not ask permission to bear arms  |
I belive you are confusing Tungsten with Platinum. A gun in the hand is worth more than ten policemen on the phone. The American Revolution was carried out by a group of gun toting religious zealots. | |||
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Baroque Bloke |
Finely divided beryllium (dust) is toxic. Solid pieces, not so much. Years ago, beryllium was the material used for disc brakes on Formula 1 cars. Light, rigid, and high specific heat. Serious about crackers | |||
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My dad, when he was in the car business, kept an engine rod from one of Schumacher's Ferrari F1 cars on his desk. Amazing how light it is. I think it's hanging on his workbench in his shop now. The Enemy's gate is down. | |||
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| The Velvet Voicebox |
Now that is just too cool for school.  Your want, your money, your want satisfied. Case closed. Might look in to that myself. Preciate the heads up Jim."All great things are simple, and many can be expressed in single words: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope." --Sir Winston Churchill "The world is filled with violence. Because criminals carry guns, we decent law-abiding citizens should also have guns. Otherwise they will win and the decent people will lose." --James Earl Jones | |||
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| Little ray of sunshine |
I have an old Ping putter that is copper alloyed with beryllium. Copper is too soft unalloyed. That alloy was the rage in golf for a few years in the late '80s and early '90s. It is still used when steel tools present a sparking hazard. It isn't supposed to be toxic in solid form. The fish is mute, expressionless. The fish doesn't think because the fish knows everything. | |||
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I knew a guy that was a manufacture of beryllium items, he was a defense contractor and made items for space flight and military aircraft since it's so lightweight yet and so strong in certain ways and an unbelievable heat exchanger. Lots of wasteage though. If they mess it up when making it it's ruined. That tungsten cube sitting on my desk would be fun though. | |||
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| Muzzle flash aficionado  |
No, I am not. The reference I just accessed says Gold is 19.3 gm/cm3 and Tungsten is 19.25 gm/cm3; Platinum is 21.45 gm/cm3--way heavier (and more expensive). flashguy Texan by choice, not accident of birth | |||
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Sabonim |
I laugh at your puny paperweights! May I present mine? 75 pounds of pure tungsten with protection, of course.  Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming, 'Wow! What a Ride! ~Hunter S. Thompson | |||
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Said no one ever..... ________________________ P229 Stainless Elite P320 X-Five Legion P320 X-Carry | |||
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Spectemur Agendo |
Some of the reviews are amusing: "By golly, that's a heavy cube sure enough." I think it would be fun to ask people to pick up the tungsten and the aluminium cubes at the same time. SIGforum's triple minority "It can't rain all the time." - Eric Draven | |||
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| Ammoholic |
What is the purpose of that? Jesse Sic Semper Tyrannis | |||
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| Sabonim |
Radioactive shielding. This is an internal storage vault for a radioisotope (iridium192). I salvaged it from a medical device called a "high dose rate afterloader." Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming, 'Wow! What a Ride! ~Hunter S. Thompson | |||
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Comic Relief |
Sure you can, although the pallbearers may say "Oomph. Damn, what's he got in there, his tungsten collection?!"  | |||
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| Thank you Very little  |
It's a knife holder, duh!  | |||
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