Re: whale

[Wright Frazier <khelek@ns1.cioe.com>]

> Density of metals. Don't know much about the properties of adamant. If
> its much heavier it makes it less useful for weapons... in today's 
> society we use titanium which (in most regards) is lighter and stronger
> than steel for a lot of things... once you leave metals and switch to
> manufacturered materials such as fiber-anything, ceramics, or, on the
> far end, buck strands, your strength/weight ratio goes way up. All I
> know about adamant is that it's strong :) I don't know about teresium's
> physical properties either. Its probably in the AQ glossary somewhere ;)
> 
> 						-Steve
> 

Adamantite is 2x as heavy.  Teresium is, I THINK, pretty much like tin.
Adamantite weapons would penetrate armour much better.  Nice hard edge,
and a lot of weight.  2 Handed swords were the rage for killing a 
guy in plate armour cause it had the weight/momentum to actually bend the
crap around him and let you break the bones under neither, something
a 1 handed sword could not do, or many 1 handed weapons of all sorts.
When dealing with plate and mail armor, penetration is whats important, and
a heavy metal like adamantite would be ideal.  *shrug*

Wright