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Originally Posted by Anthony
It looks like if we want a coating for rifle bullets that doesn't react poorly with water, hexagonal boron nitride is currently the choice. Not sure if it functions as a sealant, however, its mostly used as a lubricant.
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From what Googling tells me, hexagonal boron nitride is used as a sealant in electronics, photography, printers and various sensor applications. Of course, such applications may involve subtly different mixes or compounds than when h-BN is used as barrel and bore lubricant.
In any case, a monolithic pure iron bullet with an advanced coating that functions as lubricant even in vacuum sounds perfectly cromulent for the Swiss RUAG-made anti-monster round used by the Vatican hunters. The comparatively few Vatican-backed hunters should definitely be less paramilitary and more elegant than the embattled security forces of Brazil and Pakistan, two countries where Vile Vortices pose a direct threat to their existence and 'ordinary' crime, ethnic or religious tensions, political instability and terrorism are made much more dangerous due to supernatural influences.
When the Holy See must carry out direct action against supernatural threats in Latin America, I imagine they use their excellent relationship with local intelligence services, such as the Brazilian
ABIN, or the quasi-private, but still seemingly patriotic, Argentine occult intelligence network (the remains of
SIDE's occult faction, now apparently operating without state sanction, but obviously still connected into the highest levels of Argentine intelligence), to arrange for supernaturally-savvy muscle.
The Pope may lack battalions, but that isn't as much of a hindrance as it seems when he wields influence over hundreds of devout Colonels and the chiefs of secretive Secretariats.