In a message dated 8/8/2006 8:31:09 P.M. Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, 8 Aug 2006 22:27:21 EDT, you wrote:
>He wants to bend them and solder them end to end to make a large circle. How well does meteoritic iron bend? I'd think (not being a metallurgist, and possibly not even spelling it right) that the large intergrown crystal zones would make the metal brittle. ______________________________________________ Good question. And probably something the author of that request didn't think about. And another thing: I would think that heating the metal, and then hammering it into shape, would destroy permanently the crystallization pattern. Right? Anne M. Black www.IMPACTIKA.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] President, I.M.C.A. Inc. www.IMCA.cc ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
