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Watching a Fox News snip about genetically engineering corn to better use nitrogen, I was reminded of the Periodic Table. Since I read a lot of periodicals, I can read this one too...
It's been revealed elsewhere that INFI is 99.89% metal and carbon, with 0.11% nitrogen by WEIGHT. The metals, however, are 6400 times the density of nitrogen! If one were to cut a chunk of INFI that weighed 100 g, the 99.89 g's of metals and carbon (solids) would be about 12.48 cc's. The 0.11 g's of nitrogen would be about 88 cc's, a colorless invisible gas! So INFI is actually 88 cc nitrogen / 100.48 cc total = 87.5% gas by volume !
So now we can see that 87.5% of a Busse Combat blade is an inert, colorless, invisible, odorless gas! "Ha", you say! Well, the irrefutable facts are there. The only things left are conjecture:
How can a mostly gaseous material be tempered, let alone ground?
We know that oxygen and acetalene gases with heat can cut steel, so how is that related to the cutting prowess of INFI? Where's the heat?
Is the Busse compound "closed" because they secretly grow special nitrogen-rich corn for the military? Maybe the blades are just a diversionary front!
If 87.5% of a Busse Combat blade is invisible, how big are they REALLY?
My research for answers to these and similar compelling questions continues. Meanwhile, my plan to reforge a BATAC into a thin helmet (replacing my aluminum foil one) is on hold: one made of 87.5% clear gas would afford little or no protection from the various rays, beams, and waves. Maybe H1 steel (a rusty helmet sucks)?
Regards, ss.
It's been revealed elsewhere that INFI is 99.89% metal and carbon, with 0.11% nitrogen by WEIGHT. The metals, however, are 6400 times the density of nitrogen! If one were to cut a chunk of INFI that weighed 100 g, the 99.89 g's of metals and carbon (solids) would be about 12.48 cc's. The 0.11 g's of nitrogen would be about 88 cc's, a colorless invisible gas! So INFI is actually 88 cc nitrogen / 100.48 cc total = 87.5% gas by volume !
So now we can see that 87.5% of a Busse Combat blade is an inert, colorless, invisible, odorless gas! "Ha", you say! Well, the irrefutable facts are there. The only things left are conjecture:
How can a mostly gaseous material be tempered, let alone ground?
We know that oxygen and acetalene gases with heat can cut steel, so how is that related to the cutting prowess of INFI? Where's the heat?
Is the Busse compound "closed" because they secretly grow special nitrogen-rich corn for the military? Maybe the blades are just a diversionary front!
If 87.5% of a Busse Combat blade is invisible, how big are they REALLY?
My research for answers to these and similar compelling questions continues. Meanwhile, my plan to reforge a BATAC into a thin helmet (replacing my aluminum foil one) is on hold: one made of 87.5% clear gas would afford little or no protection from the various rays, beams, and waves. Maybe H1 steel (a rusty helmet sucks)?