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Anonymous Mon Mar 11 03:38:14 2013 No.5600330 [Reply] [Original]

Question for you, /sci/. Why aren't there weapons such as katanas being made out of two of the strongest metals, iron and steel? It seems as if it would solve the problem of breakage.

Anonymous Mon Mar 11 03:40:44 2013 No.5600332

>>5600330
"Katanas are traditionally from a specialized Japanese steel called "Tamahagane",[25] which is created from a traditional smelting process that results in several, layered steels with different carbon concentrations."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katana#Forging_and_construction

Steel is an alloy of iron and other elements, principally carbon. When carbon is the primary alloying element, its content in the steel is between 0.002% and 2.1% by weight. The following elements are always present in steel: carbon, manganese, phosphorus, sulfur, silicon, and traces of oxygen, nitrogen and aluminum. Alloying elements intentionally added to modify the characteristics of steel are: manganese, nickel, chromium, molybdenum, boron, titanium, vanadium and niobium.[1]

trolling or just incredibly stupid?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steel

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 11 03:53:28 2013 No.5600346 File: 41 KB, 500x375, hellokitty_ar15assault_2[1].jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] because gunz

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 11 04:00:43 2013 No.5600349 File: 195 KB, 500x375, diamond-gun.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] because they are made of the hardest metal known to man.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 11 04:56:14 2013 No.5600401 What about sapphire katana? Maybe it can also oscillate/vibrate for extra cutting action. Do you think it could cut through a tank? What would be more fragile? steel or sapphire? I know sapphire is harder but steel is more ductile.

Anonymous Mon Mar 11 04:56:44 2013 No.5600402
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What about sapphire katana? Maybe it can also oscillate/vibrate for extra cutting action.

Do you think it could cut through a tank? What would be more fragile? steel or sapphire? I know sapphire is harder but steel is more ductile

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 11 12:32:35 2013 No.5600861 File: 3 KB, 300x300, machete.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] They are. Pic related. $15 at Home Depot

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 11 12:39:07 2013 No.5600870 Don't they dull very easily? I've always thought they did.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 11 12:52:37 2013 No.5600886 >steel >metal shiggle me giggies, hearties

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 11 14:25:06 2013 No.5601088 >>5600330 Diamond is the hardest metal. Muramasa blades are probably diamond.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 11 14:27:06 2013 No.5601092 >>5601088 diamonds are minerals you idiot

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 11 14:28:05 2013 No.5601094 >>5601092 don't call me idiot, dumbass. Didn't you get the Memo? Scientists proved diamond is the hardest metal OF ALL TIME

>>	Schaiffe !zribfvVT8o Mon Mar 11 14:28:05 2013 No.5601095 >>5601088 Diamond is very hard, but it is not a metal.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 11 14:28:21 2013 No.5601096 >>5601092 no the only thing that can scratch a diamond is another diamond. ergo, hardest metal

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 11 14:32:06 2013 No.5601106 File: 119 KB, 758x535, 1148550915225.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5601092 >>5601095 Sometimes, anon isn't stupid. Sometimes, he's just using a meme you don't know.

>>	Schaiffe !zribfvVT8o Mon Mar 11 14:34:50 2013 No.5601112 Diamond is not a metal, and it is not even the hardest material known to man. Lonsdaleite is harder.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 11 14:35:21 2013 No.5601116 >>5601106 >>>/b/

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 11 14:37:05 2013 No.5601119 >>5601116 Anon explains how you're not getting the joke, so you tell anon to go back to /b/. You might rethink your communication skills.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 11 14:38:21 2013 No.5601122 >>5601119 I am aware of both the "joke", and where such "memes" belong.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 11 14:41:35 2013 No.5601132 >>5601122 Then i apologize for my curtness.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 11 14:43:20 2013 No.5601139 >>5601132 I'm just defending the love of my /sci/ life. There is no harm intended from me. I appreciate your civility and regret butting in.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 11 14:55:51 2013 No.5601153 >>5601139 >>5601132 >>5601122 >>5601119 Round Two..... FIGHT!!!!

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 11 15:03:06 2013 No.5601170 >>5601153 >>5601122 Memes are...like a virus man. You can' t contain them. You can't contain the future!

>>	Z !!a/lED80N5uT Mon Mar 11 15:25:50 2013 No.5601209 >>5601112 HA! I knew you were newfag... now to carry on with my day.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 11 15:25:52 2013 No.5601211 >>5601112 So lonsdaleite is the hardest metal known to man?

>>	Schaiffe !zribfvVT8o Mon Mar 11 15:31:36 2013 No.5601226 >>5601211 No, Lonsdaleite is not a metal either. The hardest metal is Osmium. >>5601209 I am not new.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 11 15:33:05 2013 No.5601232 >>5601226 i've been here all summer!

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 11 15:37:05 2013 No.5601241 >>5600330 A katana could be forged out of diamond, afterall it is the hardest metal.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 11 15:57:21 2013 No.5601292 File: 338 KB, 1024x1024, wolverine.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] the hardest metal is Adamantium because Wolverine

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 11 17:06:51 2013 No.5601478 >>5601292 He is the best there is at what he does, and what he does isn't pretty. also Vibranium

>>	None !!BJiYgff8zf2 Mon Mar 11 17:31:28 2013 No.5601558 >>5601226 >>5601232 Osmium is not the hardest metal, it's the densest. The hardest metal is probably chromium.

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