Yeah let’s ignore the fact that it loses 70% of its strength at like 800 F.
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barsoap@lemm.ee 2 years ago
Jet fuel indeed doesn’t burn hot enough to melt steel. Forging temperature, OTOH, no issue.
sexual_tomato@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 years ago
illi@lemm.ee 2 years ago
You don’t understand, steel is either solid or melted. No in-between. No idea what ^ou mean by forging temperature, swords for example are forged by pouring liquid steel to a form, it’s in so many movies!
/s obviously.
BugleFingers@lemmy.world 2 years ago
I know the /s but I also want to introduce you to amorphous solids! (Because I like them so now you get to read this lol) en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amorphous_solid
Which is essentially a “solid” structure without a proper crystalline structure. This will cause it to move as a liquid at incredibly slow speeds. Such a glass for instance. Extremely old historical glass can be seen to be thicker at the bottom than the top. Not because it was built this way, but because over hundreds of years it has “poured” down.
*This is a simplified explanation and therefore may not acutely accurate for sake of simplicity
TL;DR Some solid stuff is really just super slow liquids. I.E. Glass
quinkin@lemmy.world 2 years ago
It was in fact built that way
BugleFingers@lemmy.world 2 years ago
TIL, I did a project on this 10 or so years ago, so either I misremembered or new information came to light
illi@lemm.ee 2 years ago
That’s pretty neat!
pumpkinseedoil@mander.xyz 2 years ago
Ice too. Glaciers are flowing.