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Re: whale



On Wed, 17 Jun 1998, Matthew Fahler wrote:

> Jevan,
> 	In regards to what you wrote about adamantite being infinitely
> malleable.  This is not the way it works.  If something were infinitely
> malleable it is easy to beat into sheets.  The easier something is to beat
> into a sheet the less protective it would be.  YOu wouldn't die from
> external cuts, but you sure would die from the internal bleeding you would
> get from the brute force of the blows.  
> 
> Matthew D. Fahler
> Chemistry Teaching Major
> Purdue University
> Phone: 743-0002
> Email: martuck@expert.cc.purdue.edu
> 
> 
> 


Malleability relates to the extent that a metal can be drawm or beaten
into sheets, not the ease.  This property is independant of yield
strength, even though the two are often related.  You are wrong, I just
didn't explain my terms well enough.  I admit a one atom sheet of
Adamantite would be very weak.