Recent content by TitaniumVCarbon

I havent read the second text yet (the one about lunar dust). I didnt spot the link until now.

Didnt tell me much, except apparently the pressure peak isnt right when the blast qave hits and decreasing thereafter. The ppressure peak is a few microseconds after the detonation wave hits.

That seems to be pay to read

In an explosion in space, material is heated and expands. On the surface of Earth, it doesnt get too far, instead transferring its energy into shockwaves and tremors. But on the surface of the moon, if I'm right: - Explosions with slower initial speeds (of the expanding material that makes up...

So three possibilities - the bulk strength is different from the atom atom bond strength - making atom atom bond strengths that mean single atoms don’t get wiped off is hard or impossible (even carbon, with its atom bond strength loses atoms in this case) - these hydrocarbons weaken atom...

Yes, but someone mentioned even just cleaning it removed atoms.

It still doesn’t make sense how the material is losing mass even far from its failure point. Maybe the lost mass is electrons?

Yes

That doesn’t answer the question. The question is why materials that haven’t reached their failure or melting point still lose mass.

The IPK gradually lost microscopic amounts of mass despite not being of a weak material and being far from the platinum alloy’s (it is made of a platinum-iridium alloy) failure point. Why does this happen and what materials are immune to this? Is it only materials that are made of pure elements...

That still exposes the bad things about composites, their ‘strength’ is not inherent in the material and if we were to pry apart the material atom by atom, the same force would be needed as if the materials were seperate.

I didn’t assume it was coming from the centre, it could have come from inside the hoops, but the tension is only as strong as the atomic bonds. Also we are not talking about the Titan right now, we are talking about the actual strength of the atomic bonds (how much force would be needed to...

That’s actually tension, concrete is very bad with tension which is why the steel breaks later than the concrete, the force mentioned is like electromagnetic force but with a longer range and that pries apart atomic bonds and not atoms. I don’t know what you mean by the neutral line of internal...

If the force is external, then the force is absorbed by both components of the object. If it’s internal, then that doesn’t happen. The reinforced concrete analogy might help you to understand what I mean.

I mean that the force comes from inside the composite. What do you not get?