11-20-2015, 07:04 AM | #21 |
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Location: The Land of Enchantment
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Re: Low-Tech Weapons and Tools Underwater
Aluminum bronze is a very corrosion-resistant marine bronze, too.
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11-20-2015, 07:39 AM | #22 |
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Re: Low-Tech Weapons and Tools Underwater
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11-20-2015, 01:19 PM | #23 | |
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Re: Low-Tech Weapons and Tools Underwater
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If exotic metals - mithril, adamantine, etc - are available, it might be possible to manage an incredibly corrosion-resistant form of bronze by tossing in a bit of said material. Sure, mithril is too uncommon - and too expensive - to sell whole to some primitive underwater civilization, but using a tiny flake of mithril in a large bronze item might be acceptable. |
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11-21-2015, 08:53 AM | #24 | |
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: The plutonium rich regions of Washington State
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Re: Low-Tech Weapons and Tools Underwater
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Another option is that materials scientists have found that they can nearly halt corrosion of steel by coating it with a layer of graphene. Now graphene is clearly late TL 8 or even TL 9 materials technology - but since the OP says we are going down a divergent tech path, maybe the shark people can get some. It would also have knock-on applications (ultra-strong ropes, very efficient filters, lots of other stuff). Luke Last edited by lwcamp; 11-21-2015 at 11:09 AM. |
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