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(1) Why use gold? This would be a bit like
imitation MDF made out of burr walnut. |
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(2) Gold is soft - your diffraction grating won't
survive handling. |
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(3) The entire situation in Syria. |
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(5) Diffraction gratings as decoration are WKTE. |
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about (2) this differs from a surface diffraction gating, it is a bunch of layers, so polishing, sort of like silver polishing could leave it diffraction grating colored |
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(1) I was looking for a discount mithril substitute! One of the benefits of a microstructured material could be overlapping # layers, sort of like a composite, creating adjustable, heightened strength, so it mithril-like outperforms other metals. |
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(5) are heaps of layers of polishable metal WKTE? um, perhaps otherwise. |
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(4) actually I am urging everyone to rummage through previous unpublished ideas, this is an old unpublished idea. I think more people putting things, even their old unpublished ideas on the .5b will be beneficial! |
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//looking for a discount mithril substitute// [marked-for-tagline] |
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Gold is a bad starting point. Gold is soft, ductile, and very dense. |
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"It could be beaten like copper, and polished like glass; and the Dwarves could make of it a metal, light and yet harder than tempered steel." |
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Some Aluminium alloys come close to this specification; Titanium isn't easy to work, and oxidises rapidly, but surface treatments like anodization can help. But so far your puny Earth science hasn't developed anything like a proper mithril substitute. |
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//this differs from a surface diffraction gating, it
is a bunch of layers// |
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OK, maybe I don't get this. Are you talking about: |
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(a) Gratings (ie, regularly spaced ridges) on a gold
surface or |
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(b) Semi-transparent coatings of defined thickness,
deposited on the gold (like the coatings on modern
lenses that make them appear coloured when
viewed at an angle) |
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//Earth science hasn't developed anything like a
proper mithril substitute// Pah! Many small items
are sold in blister-packs made from a transparent
substance which is light, flexible and impenetrable
by all known implements. |
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Next up, MaxCo Armoured Defence & Picture Framing Corp. present their new lightweight combat vehicle, which discards conventional plating and reactive armour in favour of a double layer of those damned plastic blister packs that inkjet cartridges come in ... |
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The prototype has been ready for evaluation since
last July. Unfortunately, none of us can figure out
how to get into the bloody thing. |
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Yes, or then again they might not. |
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