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To: Red Badger
It could be used to make lighter airplanes, spacecraft, and cars,

What about guns?

25 posted on 12/23/2015 1:00:54 PM PST by PAR35
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To: PAR35

Hmmmmm...................


26 posted on 12/23/2015 1:02:30 PM PST by Red Badger (READ MY LIPS: NO MORE BUSHES!...............)
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To: PAR35

Might be good for a frame/receiver. Probably not good for a barrel.


32 posted on 12/23/2015 1:12:03 PM PST by NorthMountain ("The time has come", the Walrus said, "to talk of many things")
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To: PAR35

I think the flammability would also be an issue with making a gun out of it, at least the firing chamber and barrel. Gunpowder definitely burns hot enough to ignite magnesium.


36 posted on 12/23/2015 1:20:25 PM PST by Boogieman
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To: PAR35
What about guns? They already make guns out of the lightest materials. Steel (or possibly Titanium or a steel insert with carbon fiber wrap)) for the barrel and hard-wearing parts. Plastic frames. Get too light and the gun is unmanageable. As in, it hurts to fire it.
43 posted on 12/23/2015 1:26:37 PM PST by USMCPOP (Father of LCpl. Karl Linn, KIA 1/26/2005 Al Haqlaniyah, Iraq)
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