Posted on 06/10/2008 3:37:54 PM PDT by CarrotAndStick
Don’t know about cast iron. Seems like a brittle thing to work with. Mild steel is easy to work with: fast, strong, cheap.
:^)
In the New Scientist link in the earlier post of mine, there is some more information about this material.
re: This could be used to make paper guns, bullets, and knives
Maybe these are the “safer guns and safer bullets” Dr. Jocelyn Elders was talking about.
The practical application solutions will depend on what other “normal” attributes of paper, besides “strength” will be affected by the “nano-fiber” production and whether or not those other affects will be positive, negative or neutral.
Wonder how some people will shred all the "evidence" i.e. Whitewater?
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