Re: Precipitant Uranium

From: Uncle Al (UncleAl0_at_hate.spam.net)
Date: 02/24/05

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    "Gregory L. Hansen" wrote:
    >
    > I was reading about the Abrams main battle tank,
    >
    > http://www.enemyforces.com/tanks/m1a1abrams.htm
    >
    > and the article said the armor includes precipitant uranium plates. What
    > is precipitant uranium?

    Chobham armor is composite layers of hard ceramic to blunt points and
    jets interleaved with high density ductile layers to dissipate energy,
    and other stuff - a layer of chicken wire supported a foot before the
    goodies is a happy thing. The ductile layers are traditionally
    tungsten steel. Depleted uranium is much denser.

    "Precipitant uranium" is random spew. Uranium is smelted via a
    Goldchmidt reaction. 

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