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I work sometimes in a metal shop where Tungsten alloys abound. This might be the stupidest hn post I've ever read. You bought a piece of metal at vastly inflated prices for a very narrow range of performance over a specific set of conditions. Nothing more. Being the hardest isn't being the best. Tungsten is extraordinarily brittle. A hard drop on concrete could crack it. I'd also argue without a MA (metal analysis or…
I often marvel at the densities of the various heavy metals especially compared to steel. The densest of them like osmium are almost 3x as dense! I wish I could afford an osmium cube. I guess tungsten is the best cheapest-yet-still-heavy option.
Osmium is not good for you. If tungsten isn't dense-enough for you, consider platinum or rhenium.
I'm not saying one is a better choice than the other, but I know which one I'd get.
https://www.tungstenheavypowder.com/tungsten-balls-spheres-c...
I want to buy one but looking at the Amazon Canada listing, it's gonna rack up to $250 + tax
The more accurate title would be "My 95% Tungsten 5% Nickel/Iron Cube"
If you're gonna be pedantic then try to do a good job of it.
> I struggled a lot with deciding to buy a cube. It felt wrong to spend so much money on a featureless hunk of metal. When I bought my cube, I used it as an exercise to fight back against my frugality. But it wasn't meant to be: it was delivered to the wrong address and I received a full refund. Then my neighbor delivered it to me.
This is one of those moments I feel so out of touch with the community here. Is this even real life?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9O551__3ppM
Another interesting fact about tungsten is that its density is 99.75% of that of gold. So essentially you can model how heavy something is if it was made out of pure gold with tungsten. Additionally, apparently gold counterfeiters sometimes put tungsten inside of gold bars to fake gold