Subject: Re: Wanted armor piercing tung/carbide

From: [email-masked] (Michael G. Cooper)
Date: Wed, 3 Jul 1996 18:46:12 -0700 (MST)

There are literaly hundreds of alloys of various carbides in different base
metal matrices to choose from.  See your local tool steel supplier of visit
a machine shop specializing in tool and die making.  I just specified some
tools made of a titanium carbide in a high speed steel matrix that will
harden to Rc 60 minimum and hold it at over 1000 degrees F.  It's not cheap,
but who knows what you'll get with "battlefield scrap".  As for using
depleted uraniuum, would that make it easier to forge in the dark?
Seriously, I don't think the term "depleted" makes uranium non-radioactive,
as in safe to handle.  Assuming you can even get some, I'd be careful
handling it.

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From: "Dr. Mark E. Williams" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 5 Jul 1996 09:53:39 -0400

On Jul 3,  6:46pm, Michael G. Cooper wrote:
> Subject: Re: Wanted armor piercing tung/carbide
  As for using
> as in safe to handle.  Assuming you can even get some, I'd be careful

Depleted Uranium is processed to eliminate U-235 which is more radioactive than
the U-238 that remains. ALL Uranium is radioactive some isotopes more so than
others. Maybe Bill Hochella could give a better description.

Mark

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