On 29/06/2006, at 6:17 PM, Dan Minette wrote:
Good find on the phase diagram Charlie. To pick a nit, if the
consistency
and structural integrity at that temp was actually the same as well-
chewed
gum, I don't think that blacksmiths would have required big hammers
and big
arms. :-)
*Well-chewed* may mean something different to me. Lost all its
flavour, and started to go hard again... Put three sticks of
DoubleMint in your gob and chew them for 4 hours, your jaws will look
like the blacksmiths arms...
Hyperbola aside, I presume that you have no difficulty with the
multiple references to about a factor of 2 reduction in yield
strength at
that temperature.
Certainly don't have a problem with it. Plus it also shears far more
easily.
I'm a firm believer in the 9/11 conspiracy theory - the one where a
bunch of well-funded Saudis decided to do the most spectacular attack
on the most potent symbols of America's position in the world, and so
hijacked some planes and crashed them into the WTC, the Pentagon, and
would have destroyed something else, probably the White House, if not
for the passengers trying to take the plane back. There's much I
don't like - the Bush administration sucking up to the Saudis and
allowing Bin Laden's relatives to flee the States, the way the Bush
administration conflated the hatred of Iraq with TWAT. But that's the
conspiracy, right there.
Charlie
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