jack rabbit:
You weren't informed that bicycle tubes of Chro-moly & Vanaloy were declassified after 1945? Many of the elements used to accomplish the Apollo missions were know elements which were not found in a pure state. Cobalt, goblin in German, for one is usually found w/ Bismuth and while you can go to the Grocery and in the Vitamin section and purchase some B12(basis for is Cobalt), I would venture to guess that if you attempted to purchase some high speed steels, hard metals or parts for a turbine engine in which cobalt is a requirement, that the availbility compared to B12 would be a little less. Noting a few, copper chloride, copper oxide, chromium, cadmium, gallium arsenide, germanium, hexavalent chromium(toxic stuff in computers), indium phosphide and silicon in a substrate or for doping, includes elements found say in a part of a penny or in the silicon paste used to seal your window panes, but they are somewhat different in application and concentration than those of the Apollo missions which was our tangent at the time. And now we are almost light years away from the materials used for the construction of Damascus tubes.
Kind Regards,
Raimey
rse
Last edited by ellenbr; 01/05/08 04:45 PM.
