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[Kakutama Heavy Industries] Duremium Alloy

Soresu

Soresu

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Wiki Page This is kind of like my "own thing". I mean the Lorath have Structol, Yamatai has Yamataium and Novacorp has Carbon Ring everybody has their own thing. I was just hoping to make my own material for use to be a little bit more independent and to, "stand on my own" in a sense.
 
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The are two important points I'd like you to cover for me:

  • Durandium is confirmed to be Aluminum with a high level of carbon nanotubes, so removing impurities would turn this into normal aluminum. Ironically enough, pre-retcon statements on what Durandium is, state it as being a combination of Nerimium and Aluminum.
  • Nerimium is heavy, and, from what I've read, either a superheavy natural element, or a collapsed matter allotrope of a metal like steel or titanium. Either way, if this alloy is 50% Nerimium, it's going to be many times heavier than steel. At the risk of sounding like a nitpicky jerk, what would you estimate the Nerimium/Structol/Durandium combination ratio at?

Other than that, I rather like this. Different, and neat.
 
Well...I'm not exactly a rocket scientist with metallurgy Ex so the second question is beyond me. All I know is Duremium is created through a selection process of the molecular structures of both metals.

The first I can however try to explain. Durandium is not only Aluminum and carbon nano-tubes.

Durandium1) is a lightweight metallic alloy created from commonly available elements including large amounts of processed aluminum and a significant quantity of synthetic carbon nanotubes.
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Direct quote from the wiki. ^

It does have a high content of both, but not the entire thing is made of it. As for the impurities, that is part of the refining process. Left over impurities from the first processing for both Durandium and Nerimium are removed.
 
Well... point #1 was mainly going over how it's hard to refine 'complex' material (i.e.: composites), unless you're only keeping the things that works, which seem to be the Aluminum and carbon nanotubes. Unfortunately, carbon nanotube materials tend to degrade quickly with damage, so it all gets very complicated, especially since you're going all this tricky bonding stuff...

As for #2, well, there were two concerns I was trying to go on. First, this material would be very heavy if you're using any amount of Nerimium. Second, considering that it is ultradense, you'd probably have problems dealing with the ultralight-ultraheavy material meshing.
 
Alright, this is how it goes...

Aluminum 20%, Raw Nerimium, 30%, Carbon-Steel 30%, Structol-A 10%, Structol-B 10%.

In other words:

Raw Nerimium + Carbon-Steel = Nerimium Alloy

Nerimium Alloy + Aluminum = Durandium

Structol-A + Nerimium Alloy = Transition-State Nerimium

Structol B + Transition-State Nerimium + Stabilization Time = Derimium

The Derimium weight would be around half that of the equivalent mass of standard Nerimium.
 
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