[TheForge] First 'Non-Cuttable' Material in the World: Proteus Could Upgrade Bike Locks, Armor

[jerry Frost]

Doesn't every high school chemistry teacher hear that one and have the same
response?

When I first  read the title of the article I was thinking someone had come
up with a new way to use Fullerine. Locking different molecules or
structures in Fullerine matrices is going on all the time. 

Were I looking into a non-cuttable material I'm thinking a fullerine, high
carbon, monel or inconel alloy with vitrified zirconium spherules
molecularly locked into the fullerine structure. That should not only be
VERY resistant to abrasives but: heat, torch or plasma, impact, shear,
tensile and compression. 

While a ceramic, vitrified zirconia laughs at oxy acet temps, is just shy of
diamond hard and is nearly inert chemically. Fullerine is carbon in a
non-crystaline: molecule, sphere, plate, string, tube and more. All are
nearly diamond hard and far stronger than diamond. 

If you wanted to go with the nuggets in jelly approach then Bucky Ball
encased zirconium aught to beat any ceramic spheres and it's not hard to
produce. I'm thinking I'd prefer fullerine/zirconium strings but what the
hey, I'm just a guy living in the woods, I don't need uncuttable locks I can
shoot theives after the dogs corner them. (;

Frosty

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Reminds me of the student who told his teacher that he was going to develop
an acid that would eat anything.

He teacher quietly asked him. "What are you going to keep it in?"

Bob Willman
The Eagle's Anvil
Bowling Green, Ohio
WB8NQW

I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the constitution
which granted a right to congress of spending, on objects of benevolence,
the money of their constituents.

James Madison

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