Gram Gauge

Ron Nossaman RNossaman@KSCABLE.com
Sat, 14 Oct 2000 17:31:31 -0500


> Filled with 
>proper lead and/or Tungsten powder for proper weight (including glue)   on 
>gram scale, stenciled top cup with number and glued together. 
>
>Hans Sander, RPT


Tungsten powder? Yes, I know it's heavy, but who outside the university has
quantities of the stuff laying around for such prosaic use? Spent uranium
would be good too, as would platinum, gold, silver, or plutonium, and
possibly more readily available. Then there's BBs, junk from the bottom of
your screw drawer, rusty tacks, pieces of those old brass keys that are
lying in the back of that drawer by the dozens (why does everyone save old
keys, anyway? every estate sale I've ever gone to had at least one half
pint jar full of them), or any number of other chunks of relatively heavy
junk that's otherwise useless and would fit in the container. Five line
sentence aside, why tungsten?

Just checking.

Ron N


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