The next big scam will be lead cubes wrapped in a thin layer of tungsten and sold for thousands of dollars. They will come with certificates of authenticity from the International Society of Metallurgists and will be limited to five to a customer. You heard it here first.
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Where I can get some of those? Gotta get in on it while there are still low serial numbers on those certificates.
Maybe these: https://midwesttungsten.com/tungsten-cube/
These might be a hard sell, given lead is only 59% the density of tungsten. Also, they might be hard to make. Tungsten is typically brittle and hard to form at room temperature. The radical difference in melting points (600 deg C for PB vs 3422 deg C for W) would seem to rule out any welding, sintering or similar technology.
Make the tungsten container at whatever temperature is necessary. Pour molten lead into it. Glue a little tungsten cap over the fill hole.
You could sell lead cubes to wingnuts without the tungsten, just call them fuck the libs alt-crystals and you'll make a fortune.
Stamp a rough impression of a Trump bust into one side and a flag into the other, for triple the price.
Speaking of lead poisoning,
Lauren Boebert's own campaign doesn't know what state she represents,
https://www.rawstory.com/lauren-boebert-colorado-2655441927/
KD getting dangerously close to publishing the Mentaculus these days. I'm getting worried for him.
I have a tungsten cube that has a mass of 1 kg (as verified by my trusty kitchen scale). It's 1.5" on a side, which means that its specific gravity is 18.1, a little lower than the 19.3 of pure tungsten, but that's okay, because the certificate indicates that it contains a small amount of antimony for machinability. In any event, at 18.1 it's high enough that the only way to fake that high a density would be to use something that's more expensive than tungsten (e.g., gold, iridium, etc.).
Depleted uranium has almost the exact same density as Gold.
Is it expensive? It seems to me that it could have a negative cost, if the pay for scavenging it and protecting it is higher than the price you would pay to buy it.
I couldn't find a good price, but it looks like it would be comparable to the price of tungsten at best. It has the downside of being just a little bit more toxic than tungsten, by at least a few orders of magnitude.
Include the NFT of YOUR PERSONAL set of cubes for free, and it's a cinch.
Tungsten darts are the best.
First thing I thought of was diamonds.