Timeline for Effectiveness of a glowing hot tungsten sword against medieval era knights?
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| Feb 17, 2020 at 19:52 | comment | added | barbecue | @Aliden after reading that article, I'm convinced that even without actual combustion the oxidation will be extremely problematic. Oxides of tungsten actually melt at a much lower temperature than tungsten itself, so any oxide coating that forms will slough off. Effectively the blade would oxidize continually. Swinging it around would spray molten WO everywhere, not desirable. | |
| Feb 16, 2020 at 22:17 | history | edited | user_1818839 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Feb 16, 2020 at 22:07 | history | edited | user_1818839 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Feb 16, 2020 at 21:58 | comment | added | Aliden | What about this? link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00743115 It looks like there might be sufficient information on the first page | |
| Feb 16, 2020 at 21:56 | comment | added | user_1818839 | best to far... home.howstuffworks.com/light-bulb2.htm | |
| Feb 16, 2020 at 21:51 | comment | added | user_1818839 | @Aliden Having difficulty finding something non-paywalled, other than rather chatty threads on welding fora... and link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2FBF00743115 --- can't even see teh abstract! | |
| Feb 16, 2020 at 21:19 | history | edited | user_1818839 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Feb 16, 2020 at 21:09 | history | answered | user_1818839 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |