Comments on: Why not call it adamantium?

Why not call it adamantium?

birdsquared — Tue, 30 Aug 2005 13:47:35 -0800

Harder than diamond. Compress C60 with heat, and get the hardest substance known. But will it be pretty?

By: TwelveTwo

TwelveTwo — Tue, 30 Aug 2005 14:20:36 -0800

Now I know what I'm wearing a suit of next time I go up against an industrial diamond bladed saw.

By: mystyk

mystyk — Tue, 30 Aug 2005 14:28:29 -0800

TwelveTwo = James Bond? I'm kind of curious what would happen if you applied this "isothermal bulk modulus" to MeFites? Who would be considered the densest?

By: fenriq

fenriq — Tue, 30 Aug 2005 14:31:52 -0800

How can it harder than diamonds when its got diamond in its name, aggregated diamond nanorods? The real question is whether Wolverine's claws would be able to slice through it or not.

By: uncanny hengeman

uncanny hengeman — Tue, 30 Aug 2005 16:49:48 -0800

The Moh's Scale is my fave scale.

By: cenoxo

cenoxo — Tue, 30 Aug 2005 17:25:03 -0800

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By: birdsquared

birdsquared — Tue, 30 Aug 2005 19:51:09 -0800

cenoxo - I wish there were a way to swap your post for mine - yours would make a much better Front Page Post. I am chastened.

By: cenoxo

cenoxo — Tue, 30 Aug 2005 20:42:05 -0800

birdsquared: Please don't be—nobody can join the party until the host opens the door. We all see different things, and that's the beauty of MeFi.

By: cenoxo

cenoxo — Tue, 30 Aug 2005 20:49:43 -0800

uh: The Moh's Scale is my fave scale. Well, just don't be too hard on yourself...

By: alsorises

alsorises — Thu, 01 Sep 2005 21:44:02 -0800

Your LifeGem memorial will offer comfort and support when and where you need it, and provide a lasting memory that endures just as a diamond does. Forever. ...Well, technically, diamonds aren't forever. They're metastable at room temperature (thermodynamically unfavourable by slightly over one kilojoule per mol, if I recall correctly), and if left alone for a few billion years, will collapse to plain old graphite. But that's the sort of thing only we chemistry nerds worry about. </pedant>

By: ikkyu2

ikkyu2 — Fri, 02 Sep 2005 20:26:05 -0800

Mohs, not Moh's.