On Friday, November 16, 2001, at 09:08 PM, Steve Schear wrote: > At 11:20 PM 11/16/2001 -0500, you wrote: >> \Divide the U-235 into two five pound masses. Beat it evenly into the >> inside of one of your salad bowls. U-235 is malleable like gold so you >> should have no problem shaping it. Do the same with the other U-235 >> mass >> and shape it into the other salad bowl. > > My recollection is that all Uranium metal isotopes are much harder and > denser than steel. That's why depleted uranium > 238 its used for armor piercing ammunition. >
Gold is malleable AND is denser than steel. Uranium is NOT malleable AND is denser than steel. The main reason for using DU in armor-piercing shells is the sheer density. The bomb instructions Joe provided are as accurate as most recipes in "The Anarchist Cookbook." (A book my local Sheriff's Department banned in 1970.) --Tim May, Corralitos, California Quote of the Month: "It is said that there are no atheists in foxholes; perhaps there are no true libertarians in times of terrorist attacks." --Cathy Young, "Reason Magazine," both enemies of liberty.
