Re: HOWTO Build a Nuclear Device
At 11:20 PM 11/16/2001 -0500, you wrote:
\Divide the U-235 into two five pound masses. Beat it evenly into the inside of one of your salad bowls. U-235 is malleable like gold so you should have no problem shaping it. Do the same with the other U-235 mass and shape it into the other salad bowl.
My recollection is that all Uranium metal isotopes are much harder and denser than steel. That's why depleted uranium 238 its used for armor piercing ammunition. steve
On Friday, November 16, 2001, at 09:08 PM, Steve Schear wrote:
At 11:20 PM 11/16/2001 -0500, you wrote:
\Divide the U-235 into two five pound masses. Beat it evenly into the inside of one of your salad bowls. U-235 is malleable like gold so you should have no problem shaping it. Do the same with the other U-235 mass and shape it into the other salad bowl.
My recollection is that all Uranium metal isotopes are much harder and denser than steel. That's why depleted uranium 238 its used for armor piercing ammunition.
Gold is malleable AND is denser than steel. Uranium is NOT malleable AND is denser than steel. The main reason for using DU in armor-piercing shells is the sheer density. The bomb instructions Joe provided are as accurate as most recipes in "The Anarchist Cookbook." (A book my local Sheriff's Department banned in 1970.) --Tim May, Corralitos, California Quote of the Month: "It is said that there are no atheists in foxholes; perhaps there are no true libertarians in times of terrorist attacks." --Cathy Young, "Reason Magazine," both enemies of liberty.
On Friday, November 16, 2001, at 09:08 PM, Steve Schear wrote:
At 11:20 PM 11/16/2001 -0500, you wrote:
\Divide the U-235 into two five pound masses. Beat it evenly into the inside of one of your salad bowls. U-235 is malleable like gold so you should have no problem shaping it. Do the same with the other U-235 mass and shape it into the other salad bowl.
My recollection is that all Uranium metal isotopes are much harder and denser than steel. That's why depleted uranium 238 its used for armor piercing ammunition.
IIRC it's heavier, not harder (more mass for the size). Lead and Gold (as the !Dr mentioned) are both (cm^3 for cm^3) heavier than steel, and both are "softer". Both also make (in the material sense) better bullets for certain types of targets, with the exception that gold is a lot more expensive than lead, and far more useful as bait for the things you want to shoot. -- For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong. Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956)
On Fri, 16 Nov 2001, Tim May wrote:
Gold is malleable AND is denser than steel.
Uranium is NOT malleable AND is denser than steel.
Incorrect. Uranium is an actinide series element. It is a hard silver almost white substance which is both malleable and ductile. Of course this does not imply you should use it as a replacement for duck tape. Also like gold it has a luster when polished.
The main reason for using DU in armor-piercing shells is the sheer density.
correct
The bomb instructions Joe provided are as accurate as most recipes in "The Anarchist Cookbook."
(A book my local Sheriff's Department banned in 1970.)
not surprised. regards joe -- The dot.GOD Registry, Limited http://www.dot-god.com/
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