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> I think the military was looking at a similar material to replace depleted uranium with something non-radioactive I thought the point of depleted uranium pro
by balfirevic 7y ago
> I think the military was looking at a similar material to replace depleted uranium with something non-radioactive
I thought the point of depleted uranium projectiles was simply the density of uranium, giving them large impact energy for a given volume. If that's the case, titanium (4.5 g/cm^3) will not even be as good as steel (8 g/cm^3), let alone uranium (19 g/cm^3).