[meteorite-list] Odd Gibeon Request

From: Impactika_at_aol.com <Impactika_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue Aug 8 22:39:34 2006
Message-ID: <529.58ed5da.320aa4de_at_aol.com>

In a message dated 8/8/2006 8:31:09 P.M. Mountain Standard Time,
cynapse_at_charter.net 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.
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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
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Received on Tue 08 Aug 2006 10:39:26 PM PDT