What can I do with Iridium?

Dec 13, 2003 11 Replies

My uncle gave me a large amount of Iridium parts.



Is Iridium a good metal to work with or is it worthless crap like lead?



Can you craft anything useful with Iridium?


I'll trade you weight for weight with cast iron. Much handier.

Also worth around it's weight in gold (subject to large variations)...

Best regards, Spehro Pefhany

IIRC, it's worth several times its (an apostrophie does NOT mean "here comes an s") weight in gold. (I was looking at buying a small quantity to make a rocket engine)

Argh! The apostrophe police got me.. and I new that of coarse.

These guys say $110/troy oz, but from March this year, for purchase of the physical metal (which is probably going to be a fair bit more than the spot price).

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Closing price on Friday was $87/troy oz according to the South African exchange.

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Best regards, Spehro Pefhany

This kid is a troll. He has posted similar silliness in various news groups.

Regards,

Boris Mohar

Got Knock? - see: Viatrack Printed Circuit Designs

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Ontario

Hmm. I wonder if I might have been thinking about Rhenium. (The current "gold standard" engine if you can afford it is a Rhenium coated Iridium engine (or is that the other way round), this gets all the cooling it needs to avoid melting by simply acting like a light-bulb, rather than needing cooling passages/...)

There has been some work on adiabatic ceramic engines for things like battle tanks. I don't know if any are currently in production.

Best regards, Spehro Pefhany

Oops, rocket engine, not internal combustion.

Oh! Great! What we really, really, really need is a new troll!

Bob Swinney

I've learned a lot from trolls, A******, *ass, Ryker, etc, not so much from these dummys but from the replys from the group. Engineman1

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