But diamond dust is just carbon dust… adding carbon would likely just make titanium more brittle, like it does with steel. But I think we’re too literal about it and that here Kathryn actually just means some kind of Crazy Science version that isn’t a real thing in Real Life. :p
i don´t know about carbon dust, but carbon fiber is supposed to be REALLY sturdy, so maybe its less of a true alloy and more carbon fibers and titanium wire braided together?
then again, its being handled by a 300+ year old wraith, so who the f cares about the laws of real-life physics 😉
Well there is such a thing as Titanium Carbide. Formula TiC, with the same crystal structure as Table Salt (NaCl). It’s not ionic like NaCl, but it doesn’t fit very well with covalent bonds, either. You get into a lot of weird stuff like that when transition metals are involved (and Titanium is one of those). Try making up valence numbers for Cementite (Iron Carbide with 3 iron atoms to each carbon).
so cute! i want one for christmas LOL
how do you make diamond titanium alloy? diamonds aren’t metal.
throw diamond dust into melted titanium?
But diamond dust is just carbon dust… adding carbon would likely just make titanium more brittle, like it does with steel. But I think we’re too literal about it and that here Kathryn actually just means some kind of Crazy Science version that isn’t a real thing in Real Life. :p
i don´t know about carbon dust, but carbon fiber is supposed to be REALLY sturdy, so maybe its less of a true alloy and more carbon fibers and titanium wire braided together?
then again, its being handled by a 300+ year old wraith, so who the f cares about the laws of real-life physics 😉
Anything is a metal if you’re science enough!
Well, anything that isn’t hydrogen or helium, is considered “metal” in astrophysics…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metallicity
Well there is such a thing as Titanium Carbide. Formula TiC, with the same crystal structure as Table Salt (NaCl). It’s not ionic like NaCl, but it doesn’t fit very well with covalent bonds, either. You get into a lot of weird stuff like that when transition metals are involved (and Titanium is one of those). Try making up valence numbers for Cementite (Iron Carbide with 3 iron atoms to each carbon).
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