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Question What would be an ideal alloying metal for gold coinage?
This is something of a practical question more than anything else. Consider a setting in the modern world, where a large country e.g. the U.S. has collapsed and been replaced by a sort of modernized version of a feudal monarchy. Let's call it "federal monarchy". In this new Kingdom of America, the be...
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about 6 years ago
Question Would carbon fiber be a good choice to strengthen human bones, and how would that work?
Background Hi all, I'm revisiting my musings on plausibly strengthening the human skeleton to better withstand the stresses of combat, melee in particular. If y'all don't care about background, skip to "The Question" two paragraphs below. In my setting, space marines (in the sense of soldiers who b...
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about 6 years ago
Question Is there any reason to use tungsten crucibles?
So, in my setting, there are dwarves that make good steel. Shocker, I know. To refine the ore, they rely on the bloomery process like everyone else, using anthracite (when they can get it), charcoal (the normal fuel) or bituminous coal (when they can't get ahold of anthracite or charcoal). From there...
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about 6 years ago
Question What 3 wavelengths of IR light would be ideal for "Predator Vision"?
Alright, so I'm working on a setting with dwarves in it. I've been thinking that, to make things more interesting, certain clans would have the cone cells in their eyes see infrared light instead of the usual visible spectrum. However, I'm having a great deal of difficulty finding out what three IR w...
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over 6 years ago
Question Would it be possible for a humanoid organism to have bones made of a crystal like quartz or diamond rather than apatite?
Starting at the most basic of theoretical questions, is it chemically possible for these minerals to be deposited by an organic enzyme? I'm particularly interested in diamond because it's pure carbon, which is very plentiful in the environment. Perhaps, for example, one enzyme might set down methane ...
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over 6 years ago