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With a mass density higher than lead and the highest tensile strength of any elemental metal, tungsten can shrug off use and abuse which would boil titanium.I don’t have much experience with straight tungsten but WC [tungsten carbide] should fare better corrosion wise, it takes some pretty exotic stuff to corrode it. And of course, there are our signature Lucite element cubes, which feature the elements encased in a meticulously crafted, virtually indestructible block engraved with their names, symbols and atomic numbers. The internet tells me the tungsten-nickel system has a eutectic at 1,495°C, so I can well believe adding iron would lower that to 1,450°C.

The designs for our signature Lucite periodic table displays are the intellectual property of Luciteria and are crafted and machined to our strict standards for precision and quality.

But the surge in the second half of October was like nothing they had dealt with before, MTS ecommerce director Sean Murray told Insider. The base metal is heavy but is also easy to drill, file, saw, or machine cut with normal tools into whatever shape you want. MTS had seen sales spikes before and would occasionally experience a flutter of activity after a science blog or YouTube video featured one of its metallic novelty cubes, spheres, or fidget spinners. I have accepted that I will never achieve Kondo-level simplicity, because too many things spark joy: a brass dinosaur my grandmother gave me when I was a kid, a worn penguin tibia I picked up on a beach in Uruguay, an Oklahoma rose rock, the alligator head Vicki brought me from New Orleans, an armadillo skull I found in the woods once, a sliced geode, an ammonite…the list goes on.

And the other man made objects that may last a very long time may be artificial gemstones like cubic zirconia, moissanite, yag and cubic boron nitride; and also lab grown corundum crystals.With our customized pure tungsten cubes, you can expect the same exceptional quality, density, and craftsmanship that define our standard offerings.