steel
-
Watch A Tanker Completely Implode In Slow Motion
Video: The tanker in the video is 20m long with a 3m diameter and can hold up to 113,562L of liquid. It’s made of thick steel and weighs 30,391kg and yet it can be crushed with just the sweet simple science of air pressure. Watch as the gang at Mythbusters made the giant tanker implode…
-
Watch This Cool First Person View Of Hand Making A Knife
Video: Here’s a really cool video showing the daily routine of Chelsea Miller, a knife maker. It’s fun because it’s filmed from her perspective so you get to see what it really takes. Fiercely Curious, who made the video, writes, “Chelsea Miller hand makes stunning knives out of old horse rasp files. She often uses…
-
Watch An Oxy-Gasoline Liquid Fuel Torch Cut Through Metal
Video: Yowza. That burns hot. Watch as a Petrogen Multi-Fuel cutting torch nicks right through a stack of metal and cuts it clean off. The cutting system can use liquid fuels of any kind, including “gasoline of any grade, “white” gas, camping fuel, and stabiliser additive fuels” and “diesel, kerosene, biodiesel”. Basically, you pump fuel…
-
New Iron-Aluminium Alloy Is Strong And Light As Titanium, 10% Of The Cost
The best materials are, by and large, the most expensive: carbon fibre, diamond and scandium all have properties to lust for, but an eye-watering price tag to match. Now, material scientists have tweaked an iron-aluminium alloy at the nano-scale to make a material that’s as strong and light as titanium, another expensive material, but just…