[TheForge] Blacksmithing

[Andrew Vida]

Ron Childers wrote:
> What is the metal that is made from depleted uranium that is used in
> armor piercing rounds to shoot tanks? 

	Um... Depleted uranium?  U238... mostly.

 > I saw it on the Military Channel,
> but I didn't get the name of it.  It should make almost indestructible
> tools but probably hard to forge. Ron C 

	Uranium is a toxic heavy metal.  Metals such as it and Plutonium would 
be hazardous even were they not radioactive.

	Forge uranium?  Not likely.  It is pyrophoric.  If you got that thing 
burning, you'd be wishing you hadn't.  The buttons from which parts of 
the detonators are made have to have the oxides removed after they are 
cast.  At least part of the operation is done with hand scrapers.  It is 
good fun to watch the sparks flying off as the scraping is done.
> 
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> Do any of you guys know anything about blacksmithing? You are proving
> you know very little about nuclear reactors. 
> 
> Barry 
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