@@lgumyg2608uranium is obviously top. not because he can identify metals but because of context. Uranium vs tungsten means uranium first(top) tungsten after(bottom). if it was tungsten vs uranium then it would be the opposite. Hope this helped 😊
Prior tanker here, the uranium is a softer metal but and here is the but, when sharpened depleted uranium strikes a metal surface such as tank armor it self sharpens as it penetrates, sending molten hot metal aft of the entry point. Velocity and heat can make what may be a softer metal into a much more affective tool.
Top is depleted uranium armor piercing core, bottom is tungsten, and the steel plate is the same. Obviously the uranium doesn't penetrate without impact velocity.
@@debacofzomb9889 Doesn't really matter. When Uranium hits something at speed, it chips and becomes sharper. So it keeps penetrating the armor layer after layer without much fuss
@@StainlessTom Yes and no, the reason uranium is used is not only because of it's density (tungsten has almost the same density), but also because Uranium ignites, it's basically armor piercing incendiary ammo.
@@snakevenom4954didnt want to copypaste sucks i couldnt find the term. But . "Depleted uranium projectiles, because of the way their molecules bing together, tend to melt along their sides on impact, “self-sharpening” and spearing through armor plate in a deadly blast of molten metal"
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Depleted uranium (top) is used for cheap mass because it's heavy enough to have armor piercing qualities even though it's relatively soft. Tungsten Carbide (bottom) is used when you want maximum performance because in addition to being heavy, it's HARD (9.5 on Mohs scale - diamond is 10).
A Tungsten Carbide long rod APFSDS could shatter because of its high hardness, it is brittle. In addition modern armour elements like ERA and NERA are designed to take advantage of this and shatter or degrade the penetrating shell. As such a lower hardness, less brittle and higher density metals like depleted uranium and tungsten heavy alloys would be better for long rod APFSDS rounds
Uranium is top, Tungsten is bottom. Uranium is a 6 on the Mohs hardness scale, making it softer and more malleable - which is why it deformed. Tungsten Carbide is a 9.5 on the Mohs scale, which is why it was able to punch through the steel plate below.
Wrong my good sir. Uranium is the bottom. They are both penetrator slugs from a tank rounds. Uranium although not as hard it sure as hell is dense and can punch through most things... Sorta like how lead is pretty soft but will penetrate about as well as a mild steel core but dump more energy.
@@hellbringer09yeah, because density matters on a slow push from a hydraulic ram as much as it does in a ballistic situation.... if you completely ignore physics 🙄
@@mrgoodman6620nahh, tungsten does just fine as AP tank round (it's even denser than uranium and has a lot higher melting point, so it deforms less even without self sharpening. It's actually better as a projectile). The main reason uranium is used instead of tungsten is cost. Tungsten is pricy AF.
@@jordicl4325 "The main reason uranium is used instead of tungsten is cost. Tungsten is pricy AF." Yea no, the US has no problems with funding, reasons for DU over tungsten: pyrophoric adiabatic shear bands - i.e. self sharpening Less velocity required - barrel longevity / Germany required a new cannon to improve their pen Performs better at lower velocities. "it's even denser than uranium" The difference is pretty "negligble" when compared with everything else DU has: Tungsten density - 19.3 g/cm3 DU density - 19.07 g/cm3 DU is simpler, it doesn't require huge changes i.e. the US hasn't changed their cannon since 1985.... Meanwhile Germany has changed their cannon from the L/44 - L/55 - L/55A1. The only reason Tungsten is actually used is because DU scares people.
@@aflyingcowboy31 i agree with you in the DU scares people part. But the cost part is also true. You just said that using tungsten decreases barrel longevity and requires higher velocity, so you just listed two things that make tungsten expensive. Add to that the price of tungsten itself and the cost becomes a REALLY relevant issue even with the gargantuan budget of the US military.
@@Th3Edit0r_ The top is Tungsten, bottom Uranium. The black Oxide coating gives it away. Uranium is one of the few things as dense as Tungsten what are you talking about? Its likely even Depleted Uranium which will make it denser than Tungsten. Dense does not mean strong, Lead is Dense yet I can cut it with a knife.
I mean when reading, we in the west go left to right, top to bottom. So it stands to reason that the top one is the uranium while the bottom one is tungsten.
Tungsten alloys used in armor penitrating projectiles are often more dense than DU. DU does have other benefits which give it an advantage over Tungsten. DU is better against composite while Tungsten is better against thicker armor that's not as complex @@gujwdhufjijjpo9740
@@saudad2103haha, yes, that IS why depleted uranium is used in armor penetrating bullets. From Wikipedia: “Depleted uranium is favored for the penetrator because it is self-sharpening[38] and flammable.[34] On impact with a hard target, such as an armored vehicle, the nose of the rod fractures in such a way that it becomes sharper, preventing the dispersal that takes place with tungsten penetrators.”
If anyone wonders, top rod is wax, bottom glazed candy, plate is chocolate. Tungsten and uranium? Thats the materials of the button to turn on the press.
Uranium is incredibly dense, and has a lot of potential kinetic energy which is the reason why it is used inside of high velocity projectile systems. Tungsten is incredibly hard as shown and even at lower velocities will be able to punch through hard materials. Sometimes even both are in conjunction at the exact same time, uranium wrapped in a tungsten bolt the hardness of the bolt combined with the density of the uranium makes a incredibly effective piercing projectile. Mainly used in tanks and bunker buster type bombs.
Aren't most bunker busters just regular bombs with thicker casings (or in the case of the US, an old howitzer barrel filled with comp B and with a paveway kit welded on)
Its like water. You drop it on your hand, it splashes. No big deal. Put it into a high pressure spray, it cuts metal and diamonds like butter. The same idea can be the same for a AP uranium core
its the same idea behind a theoretical armour piercing core made of solid gold; since all metals behave like fluid at extreme velocity, hardness doesnt matter anymore, only the densest metal wins
@@Hail_Full_of_Grace "Depleted uranium is very dense; at 19,050 kg/m3, it is 1.67 times as dense as lead, only slightly less dense than tungsten and gold, and only 16% less than osmium or iridium, which are the densest known substances under standard (i.e., Earth-surface) pressures." - Wikipedia (NOTME.)
@@Hail_Full_of_Grace no way you just said that please actually try to answer a question instead of pulling random shit out of your ass uranium is softer and less dense than tungsten depleted uranium has the same density and hardness as normal uranium
@@za_pravdu1943thats not the point tho, the point is penetration and with out IMPACT VELOCITY uranium wont do much but gi e it speed and it will go thru3x the armor than tungsten.
The reason for the geometry is that while tungsten is very strong, it’s prone to shatter. So by making a tungsten projectile with a dull tip, you reduce the odds of the entire projectile shattering when hitting the target and therefore increase the odds of the projectile actually penetrating the target. However, that is all tungsten will do and simply penetrating armor is not enough to always actually kill the target and its occupants. The depleted uranium projectile has a sharp tip because while it’s softer, it doesn’t shatter. With enough velocity, the uranium projectile has the ability to shed material and sorta retain a sharp tip. It’ll do this until there isn’t enough mass and or velocity to continue forward into the target. This in itself allows the projectile to actually penetrate better than tungsten projectiles. Compound this with its tendency to not being an extremely stable element, it can even ignite inside of the target causing their munitions to flare up or detonate which can result in the death of the entire crew inside the vehicle as well as substantial destruction of the vehicle.
It would be quite interesting to play a game like Skyrim where the AI has some kind of ChatGPT built-in to their coding and letting them mimic human behavior. But it might get boring when later everyone just runs away, abandoning their camps and all, since their only concern would be self-preservation.
@@Calibre-s3g Perhaps, or they'd focus on actually *ambushing* you rather than screaming at you and running in a straight line. Hard to tell with AI, plus, with such a mod/feature, the option to make them surrender would also probably be included. So, if you had a history of taking prisoners rather than lives, you could arrest them instead.
Watch the original video then. Also, use logic of you don't know the physical properties of materials. The guy is Norwegian. They read left to right and up to down. That's how the video is labeled. Top is uranium. Maybe you'll at least be smart enough to figure out what the other one is from there?
@@mattmarzulacalm down dude theres no need to be this rude its just a funny comment theres probably 100's of such comments but you wont say to them cuz they have more likes and more people will reply you on that
@@Octanitrocubane-enjoyerat low velocity, Tungsten always win DU becomes better for APFSDS because it have unique behavior when felt the thermal surge caused by the high velocity impact
@@za_pravdu1943 except there’s only 3 nations who actually can manufacture and use DU, so for the most part people still use tungsten so what’s even your point
@@Octanitrocubane-enjoyer no, what is YOUR point? 😂 the shape of the tip is secondary to the actual velocity of the projectiles, and so what if ‘only 3 countries can produce DU rounds?’ Does that in any way mean that it is not an ideal material for an APFSDS round? No, so what is your point? 😂
@@Potata767 Tool maker here. The bottom one is called a piercing mill. It is an actual tool and it is used in this very manner. The top one looks like a kinetic impactor that someone took a cutoff wheel to. I could be wrong on that, but the geometries match pretty well. Anywho, the shape is not secondary to the material nor velocity. It is DETERMINED by the material and velocity. At low speeds both materials benefit from the parabola based point, AKA the bullet shape. The shape strikes the best balance between focusing the force on a small area of of the substrate AND distributing that force evenly across the punch to minimize plastic deformation. A last note. The uranium impactor on the top is not hardened into a tool steel. I wouldn't recommend replicating this test with it hardened either. If it were hardened it would not show nearly any plastic deformation because it would shatter instead. The latter is the reason I don't recommend doing this t 72 Rockwell hardened depleted uranium. If the depleted uranium were properly shaped for a piecing mill operation, and it was properly hardened, then it would outperform tungsten steel because it makes a better tool steel for this operation. Harder, denser, and less of a tradeoff between toughness, hardness and brittleness.
Uranium gets it's penetration power through velocity and when it impacts it starts deteriorating on the outer layer so it basically sharpens itself when penetrating armor.
@@butchcassidy9625yeah definitely because it just flattened out the tip of the armor piercing round and and didn't give it enough kinetic power to get hot on impact
@@butchcassidy9625you can also see it by looking at the tip because the tungsten rod got designed to only penetrate by its sheer weight on impact and not the selfsharpening aspect
@butchcassidy9625 Uranium is more dense but more malleable. Tungsten is a little lighter but a lot firmer. This test isn't to demonstrate which would be better shit out of a cannon.
as far as i understand uranium is more dense giving it a higher energy when fired and thus greater impact. however to penetrate a press by brute force without impact is no matter of density but hardness its simply a matter of which material is harder. i think both are used generally for tank shells and theres no big difference but i dont know much about weapons.
Depleted Uranium is really dense, it's basically hyper lead. Which makes it really good for armor piercing munitions. Tungsten has incredible tensile strength, it's basically steel on crack. I love everyone not figuring out which is which. It's layout presentation. The first one mentioned is on the top.
Um... No, the top is Tungsten, bottom Uranium and I am positive of this. That black oxide coating on the bottom is Uranium. You can get shiny Tungsten you can not get Shiny Uranium as it quickly oxidizes
Nahh, it's depleted 238-uranium. It has lower radioactivity than enriched 235-uranium. Even then, it didn't reach critical mass yet. There's also no beryllium neutron reflectors. Uranium by itself didn't explode.
The bottom one had a far better point shape for piercing armor. It used the classic armor penetrator shell shape, the top one had a bery weak and unsupported point...
Doesn’t matter. Tungsten is really brittle so it would have shattered if it were pointy. But it’s so hard that you don’t even need a point, it could be a cube and it would still go through without deforming… I work with tungsten carbide and that’s only under diamond on the hardness scale anywhere between 8 and 9’5 depending on the quality…
Correct; however. At high velocity, Uranium will shatter in a very predictable way-with the tip geometry seen on the top rod, it keeps the same point as the penetrator ...penetrates. Which is helpful for getting through ceramic armours.
Nope uranium is weak metal but have cery high density this material have good penetration only at very high speed Tungsten is very hard material to it doesnt need great speed
@@Denisowatyno, depleted uranium is harder and denser than tungsten. Tungsten rounds deform when they hit their target while depleted uranium rounds fragment and make sharper projectiles (that are also flammable btw)
Ur such a midwit bro. Tungsten carbide is hard and brittle, it will never deform like that. DU is used as ammunition for large weapons because its a cheap, abundant, hazardous, and otherwise useless waste product that gets buried in the ground. Its much easier to machine. Its used because its a waste byproduct and tungsten carbide is hilariously expensive and useful; and we do not mine tungsten in the US. We import all of the ore.
Fun Fact: Tungsten is one of the hardest material and just to simply alter its demension huge amount of energy is required. Hope you can differentiate now
@@SoftHyphen. it is, uranium reacts with oxygen to produce UO² pretty quickly , meanwhile tungsten takes more time for it to get oxidized. if thats not chemistry what is it then?
For everyone trying to figure out which is which. The top one is uranium while the bottom is tungsten. People meep saying the coating is what tells you its the uranium but theres several reasons why thats false. 1 reason is uranium is silver smoke gray when its milled or cast. Its a softer metal but far dencer then tungsten with a proton count of 92 while tungsten has a proton count of 74. Tungsten is a brittle metal but has a hardness of 9.5 on the mohs scale while uranium is a 6, this is even softer then most mild steels. Do your own research and look up pictures of both, theres nothing special or secrete about chunks of metal. Hell id argue that top one isnt even uranium as refind metal uranium is controlled because you could make it into a weapon, not a nuke but a dirty bomb. It might be somthing like lead or aluminium as both are silver to smoky gray and are also soft metals. Hope this helped anyone but again do your own research as half of the people in the comments cant even spell uranium let alone know what it even is in comparison and are the same people tell you which one is which
100% agree. Mohs hardness scale>visual appearance. People here also think that the depleted uranium manages to "self sharpen" and penetrate from the force produced by the hydraulic press as if it was impacting at mach 5...😆
@@Sartpend1. That's not how uranium works or looks like. 2. There are multiple comments confirming the opposite of what you said, you're just wrong in this situation.
@@Sartpend deleted uranium piercing core, which someone else pointed out was the top one, looks literally the exact same as it, meanwhile you're just saying that's not how uranium looks like without proving anything. Just admit you're wrong and leave.
@@vedob5163he is suggesting thst the plate that is punczured in the video is aluminium instead of steel of course the bottom one(tungsten) penetrates it so easily
@norbertnagy5514 but the plate is the same in both videos u can see the mark that the uranium left on the second video. The metal pins are the uranium and tunsten.
Guys uranium is obviously the one above and tungsten is the one below. Even for tanks and tank shells, depleted uranium is used as a substitute for the more expensive tungsten. However, this test doesn't really prove anything because APFSDS shells are so fast they act like liquids, so the only thing that matters is the density
@@DanY-mj4glwhy else would a video be showing uranium vs tungsten? Roughly projectile shaped against a plate? Like what else besides kinetic penetrators like APFSDS utilizes the physical properties of uranium and tungsten in this way?
@@AnotherTolmekian I'm one of them enthusiasts lol. The video has nothing to do with projectile testing yet the commenter is saying that "this test doesn't really prove anything because I thought this video is about DU kinetic penetrators"
@@Physics__guy You can tell that you are a gringo ALV, you better pay attention in class or if you don't even study anymore, then do your own research, I'm sure there are channels in English that explain these topics well. And if not, oh, it doesn't matter in Spanish, oh, several channels like ciencia de sofá They explain it well in an entertaining way and you can surely put the subtitles in English. You have no excuse, not even the lead in your body.
The shiney round on top is depleted uranium, on the bottom is tungsten carbide. If yall knew chemistry you would know, tungsten is a 9.6 on the hardness scale.
Сравнение неверно. У этих стержней разная заточка. У рижнего профиль зубила, рассчитанное на нагрузки. А верхний в остриё, не удивительно что его погнуло...
Дело не в заточке, а в материале Уран плотный но мягкий, он легко деформируется, но на большой скорости он легче вонзится, чем вольфрам. А вольфрам менее плотный, но гораздо более твёрдый, поэтому он легко вонзился, не повредившись. Из этих двух металлов делают подкалиберные ломы для БОПСов (бронебойных оперенных подкалиберных снарядов), причём уран используют как наконечник, а вольфрам как основное тело лома, что позволяет снаряду на скорости 1-2 км/сек. легко вонзаться в броню танка урановым наконечником и пробивать её дальше вольфравомым ломом
Особенность урана ещё и в том, что он при попадании в броню на высоких скоростях начинает скалываться как кремень постоянно образуя острую кромку(этакий самозатачивающийся карандаш) , откалывающиеся фрагменты крошки и пыли имеют свойство самовозгораться да и к тому же у урана выше плотность, а соответственно и выше кинетическая энергия. Единственное, что мешает его повсеместное применение в снарядах это радиоактивность, высокая токсичность и концерогенность.
Lol lots of confusion in the comments. The top is Uranium. Uranium is very soft and malleable, tungsten is the opposite. Under that sort of pressure, tungsten has two options, Option 1: The entire core snaps, tungsten doesnt bend or flex under pressure its incredibly brittle. Density has nothing to do with malleabiltily. Option 2. It penetrates the plate because its a much weaker material that is likely made of steel or some other sort of alloy. Uranium flexes, bends, and is very soft. They do in fact share the same density, well pretty close. Im an NDT technician with a prerequisite of my job being materials engineering. Trust me on this, im about the only one here not talking out of their ass.
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To explain the use of depleted uranium in munitions, hardness is not the first or best characteristic for armour piercing ammunition, it is density. That is the reason for the usage of lead in bullets and shot since the dawn of firearms development. It means it can deliver and store more energy in the projectile to use it to penetrate, an excessively hard projectile would only shatter upon impact, reducing penetration. After all you can't drop a diamond on a tank and expect it to go through, but shoot a piece of cast iron with enough energy and it'll go through. Energy penetrates, not hardness.
For everyone still confused, I don't think it's the plate, I think it's the bit attached to the press. Uranium bent on a steel plate tungsten ate the steel plate
at high velocity, the depleted uranium will actually sharpen itself as it penetrates its target, making it a good choice for armor piercing rounds, as it is commonly used for
For those of you wondering why the Depleted Uranium (top) performed so much worse than the Tungsten Carbide (bottom) but is still considered the better perpetrator material, it's because the penetrative power largely comes from the mass of the projectile, not the hardness.
Depleted uranium is hella hard to get unless you have special DU licenses and ppe. Kinda think its just lead they are using in the video because: 1: uranium turns into its daughter product, lead, after millions of years from 4-200m years. So they might have used lead as a replacement for DU. 2: getting DU requires hella hard to get licenses and ppe + authorization from the government. 3: crushing DU is super dangerous as is can easily create airborne dust of radioactive material that would be way worse to breath in then asbestos. You would have your license revoked instantly if the government knows about it.
FOR THOSE WHO ACTURALLY NEEDS HELP IDENTIFYING THE STUFF: uranium is self sharping meaning it can pierce through just about anything, while tungsten like most metals bends and flattens.
It's amazing that tungsten/uranium penetrated the steel while tungsten/uranium could not
Q/1: Circle the correct word :
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uranium is top obviously
@@ommsterlitz1805... obviously!? u think that knowing metal names just by looks is common knowledge? u gud?
@@lgumyg2608uranium is obviously top. not because he can identify metals but because of context.
Uranium vs tungsten means uranium first(top) tungsten after(bottom). if it was tungsten vs uranium then it would be the opposite.
Hope this helped 😊
For those wondering, Tungsten is the word on the right side of the screen, uranium is the word on the left.
Thanks, I am lysdexic and could not figure that out
Fore those actually wondering on his channel he shows in the full video that the shiny one is depleted uranium and the nasty one is tungsten carbide
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@@MainInternetUser What did the Tungsten Carbide do to you to deserve that?
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I love the part where they label which one is uranium and which one is tungsten
Top one is uranium
Or what it’s initially being tested against..
@@timothyhackett7372no
@@MoneyMotivationYT Looks like mild grade steel
None of it iş uranium
Prior tanker here, the uranium is a softer metal but and here is the but, when sharpened depleted uranium strikes a metal surface such as tank armor it self sharpens as it penetrates, sending molten hot metal aft of the entry point. Velocity and heat can make what may be a softer metal into a much more affective tool.
One of the smartest comments in this comment section. Bravo my good sir.
only when it is strikes metal surface at high supersonic velocity
@@volodumurkalunyak4651 that’s exactly what I was describing.
I guess just like a shaped charged explosives?!.
@@Åbhîshēk-Raj-009 kind of
If you're having trouble figuring out which one is tungsten and which one is uranium, the uranium is the one next to the tungsten
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Top is depleted uranium armor piercing core, bottom is tungsten, and the steel plate is the same. Obviously the uranium doesn't penetrate without impact velocity.
The shape needs to be the same in this test too
@@debacofzomb9889 Doesn't really matter. When Uranium hits something at speed, it chips and becomes sharper. So it keeps penetrating the armor layer after layer without much fuss
@@StainlessTom Yes and no, the reason uranium is used is not only because of it's density (tungsten has almost the same density), but also because Uranium ignites, it's basically armor piercing incendiary ammo.
@@snakevenom4954didnt want to copypaste sucks i couldnt find the term. But . "Depleted uranium projectiles, because of the way their molecules bing together, tend to melt along their sides on impact, “self-sharpening” and spearing through armor plate in a deadly blast of molten metal"
@@snakevenom4954I found it. adiabatic shear
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Great job making it so clear which is which. Well done.
Common sense helps
@@-Robert this is the Internet sir. Assuming common sense will only end in tears.
@@Captain_Kickass-l1f fair enough
I will assist. Tungsten is really hard. Uranium is not as hard.
The one on the left is uranium therefore the right one is tungsten. Dmbass
I love the part where I have to guess which one is which.
Top is uranium. Bottom is tungsten.
Use common sense. (:
Well, DU is usually almost as reflective as silver
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Everyone knows what tungsten looks like goofball. It's black in appearance
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Tungsten is a really hard metal, so isn't it obvious that the one below is tungsten.
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Depleted uranium (top) is used for cheap mass because it's heavy enough to have armor piercing qualities even though it's relatively soft. Tungsten Carbide (bottom) is used when you want maximum performance because in addition to being heavy, it's HARD (9.5 on Mohs scale - diamond is 10).
If a projectile is too hard it shatters and that was the reason they switched from tungsten carbide to other tungsten alloys
A Tungsten Carbide long rod APFSDS could shatter because of its high hardness, it is brittle. In addition modern armour elements like ERA and NERA are designed to take advantage of this and shatter or degrade the penetrating shell.
As such a lower hardness, less brittle and higher density metals like depleted uranium and tungsten heavy alloys would be better for long rod APFSDS rounds
Tungsten ist also used in manufacturing in Tools to mill and turn
Uranium is top, Tungsten is bottom.
Uranium is a 6 on the Mohs hardness scale, making it softer and more malleable - which is why it deformed.
Tungsten Carbide is a 9.5 on the Mohs scale, which is why it was able to punch through the steel plate below.
Wrong my good sir. Uranium is the bottom. They are both penetrator slugs from a tank rounds. Uranium although not as hard it sure as hell is dense and can punch through most things... Sorta like how lead is pretty soft but will penetrate about as well as a mild steel core but dump more energy.
@hellbringer09 wrong, uranium is on top.
@@hellbringer09yeah, because density matters on a slow push from a hydraulic ram as much as it does in a ballistic situation.... if you completely ignore physics 🙄
@@hellbringer09 tungsten does not plastically deform. the top is standard uranium, not depleted which is used by some states as tank ammunition
Doesn't uranium have self sharpening
"Target destroyed"
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Uranium: "sorry, boss called me in to work a double shift and I didn't sleep good last night."
that's what she said
Uranium: Pardon the pun, but I'm not in my element until well over mach1, I'd like to see tungsten boy here keep it together at that pace. lol
@@mrgoodman6620nahh, tungsten does just fine as AP tank round (it's even denser than uranium and has a lot higher melting point, so it deforms less even without self sharpening. It's actually better as a projectile).
The main reason uranium is used instead of tungsten is cost. Tungsten is pricy AF.
@@jordicl4325 "The main reason uranium is used instead of tungsten is cost. Tungsten is pricy AF."
Yea no, the US has no problems with funding, reasons for DU over tungsten:
pyrophoric
adiabatic shear bands - i.e. self sharpening
Less velocity required - barrel longevity / Germany required a new cannon to improve their pen
Performs better at lower velocities.
"it's even denser than uranium"
The difference is pretty "negligble" when compared with everything else DU has:
Tungsten density - 19.3 g/cm3
DU density - 19.07 g/cm3
DU is simpler, it doesn't require huge changes i.e. the US hasn't changed their cannon since 1985.... Meanwhile Germany has changed their cannon from the L/44 - L/55 - L/55A1.
The only reason Tungsten is actually used is because DU scares people.
@@aflyingcowboy31 i agree with you in the DU scares people part.
But the cost part is also true. You just said that using tungsten decreases barrel longevity and requires higher velocity, so you just listed two things that make tungsten expensive.
Add to that the price of tungsten itself and the cost becomes a REALLY relevant issue even with the gargantuan budget of the US military.
If you were wondering, Uranium is the one with the radioactive glow.
i.e. the one not touched.
I can't believe I spent the last 15 minutes looking through the comments to find out which is which and I am still no closer to the answer 🤷♂️
Isn't it obvious?
@@Th3Edit0r_ The top is Tungsten, bottom Uranium. The black Oxide coating gives it away. Uranium is one of the few things as dense as Tungsten what are you talking about? Its likely even Depleted Uranium which will make it denser than Tungsten. Dense does not mean strong, Lead is Dense yet I can cut it with a knife.
I mean when reading, we in the west go left to right, top to bottom. So it stands to reason that the top one is the uranium while the bottom one is tungsten.
@@Smartness_itselfTotally. The one that isn't tungsten is the uranium.
tungsten is 9.5 vs uranium's 6 on the mohs scale so id assume tungsten is the bottom
Under pressure uranium heats up and becomes a self-sharpening tip making it a very good metal for armor penetrating bullets
it’s only because uranium is dense so it carries momentum.
Only at high velocities lol 😆
Tungsten alloys used in armor penitrating projectiles are often more dense than DU. DU does have other benefits which give it an advantage over Tungsten. DU is better against composite while Tungsten is better against thicker armor that's not as complex @@gujwdhufjijjpo9740
@@saudad2103haha, yes, that IS why depleted uranium is used in armor penetrating bullets. From Wikipedia:
“Depleted uranium is favored for the penetrator because it is self-sharpening[38] and flammable.[34] On impact with a hard target, such as an armored vehicle, the nose of the rod fractures in such a way that it becomes sharper, preventing the dispersal that takes place with tungsten penetrators.”
@@alphazuluzdepleted uranium is dirt cheap while tungsten is expensive - ammo costs are also an important factor for military.
If anyone wonders, top rod is wax, bottom glazed candy, plate is chocolate.
Tungsten and uranium? Thats the materials of the button to turn on the press.
love how both have different shapes for an accurate comparison
Uranium is incredibly dense, and has a lot of potential kinetic energy which is the reason why it is used inside of high velocity projectile systems.
Tungsten is incredibly hard as shown and even at lower velocities will be able to punch through hard materials.
Sometimes even both are in conjunction at the exact same time, uranium wrapped in a tungsten bolt the hardness of the bolt combined with the density of the uranium makes a incredibly effective piercing projectile. Mainly used in tanks and bunker buster type bombs.
Aren't most bunker busters just regular bombs with thicker casings (or in the case of the US, an old howitzer barrel filled with comp B and with a paveway kit welded on)
Informative and to the point, thank you sir
long ranged..short ranged.
Potential kinetic energy 😂
Ah yes love the uranium bolts in my chair.
Its like water. You drop it on your hand, it splashes. No big deal. Put it into a high pressure spray, it cuts metal and diamonds like butter. The same idea can be the same for a AP uranium core
Waterjet cutters use abrasive grains to wear away the material. They can't really cut diamonds.
Tell it to my shower head, it’s a massaging one
its the same idea behind a theoretical armour piercing core made of solid gold;
since all metals behave like fluid at extreme velocity, hardness doesnt matter anymore, only the densest metal wins
Garnet says it cuts the material not the water. Garnet says you’re wrong, not me.
That's a misnomer.
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Tungsten wouldn't deform, it would shatter. (If it failed to pierce through something)
This.
Same for uranium uranium have self honing when oenetrating
There's a reason they used to make depleted uranium ap rounds for tanks
@@AtkinTheorybecause it's dense af... HRC about 48 so they say.
Tungsten hrc 60+
@@AtkinTheory
They still use depleted uranium penetrator rounds for tanks...
Shiney one in top is depleted Uranium and darker one at the bottom is tungsten carbide.
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@@MindBodySoulOkHe is right , tungsten as around 9.5 in toughness measures scale so it could penetrate it .. uranium has lower .
@@xninja2369 depleted uranium is harder and denser than tungsten
@@Hail_Full_of_Grace
"Depleted uranium is very dense; at 19,050 kg/m3, it is 1.67 times as dense as lead, only slightly less dense than tungsten and gold, and only 16% less than osmium or iridium, which are the densest known substances under standard (i.e., Earth-surface) pressures."
- Wikipedia (NOTME.)
@@Hail_Full_of_Grace no way you just said that
please actually try to answer a question instead of pulling random shit out of your ass
uranium is softer and less dense than tungsten
depleted uranium has the same density and hardness as normal uranium
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Tungsten is probably the one going through the dam metal cause I've never heard of it."😂
The tip geometry is probably of pretty significant importance here for this to be a fair test haha
Nope, tungsten is harder than uranium, so it is less likely to experience deformation
@@za_pravdu1943thats not the point tho, the point is penetration and with out IMPACT VELOCITY uranium wont do much but gi e it speed and it will go thru3x the armor than tungsten.
@@wolfsiejk you just give a solution, but what I talk about is WHY URANIUM WONT DO MUCH WITHOUT IMPACT VELOCITY
@@za_pravdu1943 yes
The reason for the geometry is that while tungsten is very strong, it’s prone to shatter. So by making a tungsten projectile with a dull tip, you reduce the odds of the entire projectile shattering when hitting the target and therefore increase the odds of the projectile actually penetrating the target. However, that is all tungsten will do and simply penetrating armor is not enough to always actually kill the target and its occupants. The depleted uranium projectile has a sharp tip because while it’s softer, it doesn’t shatter. With enough velocity, the uranium projectile has the ability to shed material and sorta retain a sharp tip. It’ll do this until there isn’t enough mass and or velocity to continue forward into the target. This in itself allows the projectile to actually penetrate better than tungsten projectiles. Compound this with its tendency to not being an extremely stable element, it can even ignite inside of the target causing their munitions to flare up or detonate which can result in the death of the entire crew inside the vehicle as well as substantial destruction of the vehicle.
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It would be quite interesting to play a game like Skyrim where the AI has some kind of ChatGPT built-in to their coding and letting them mimic human behavior. But it might get boring when later everyone just runs away, abandoning their camps and all, since their only concern would be self-preservation.
@@Calibre-s3g Perhaps, or they'd focus on actually *ambushing* you rather than screaming at you and running in a straight line. Hard to tell with AI, plus, with such a mod/feature, the option to make them surrender would also probably be included. So, if you had a history of taking prisoners rather than lives, you could arrest them instead.
@@MM-sx7zs True. It would be way more interesting with such an unpredictable behavior either way.
It’s so crazy how the unlabeled metal performed better than the unlabeled metal
Watch the original video then. Also, use logic of you don't know the physical properties of materials. The guy is Norwegian. They read left to right and up to down. That's how the video is labeled. Top is uranium. Maybe you'll at least be smart enough to figure out what the other one is from there?
@@mattmarzulacalm down dude theres no need to be this rude its just a funny comment theres probably 100's of such comments but you wont say to them cuz they have more likes and more people will reply you on that
@@mattmarzulaUp to down?
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I like where they used the same point on both pieces
you use the same on both they’ll both go through because they’re both really good at that, we put em in APFSDS rounds because they’re so good
@@Octanitrocubane-enjoyerat low velocity, Tungsten always win
DU becomes better for APFSDS because it have unique behavior when felt the thermal surge caused by the high velocity impact
@@za_pravdu1943 except there’s only 3 nations who actually can manufacture and use DU, so for the most part people still use tungsten so what’s even your point
@@Octanitrocubane-enjoyer no, what is YOUR point? 😂 the shape of the tip is secondary to the actual velocity of the projectiles, and so what if ‘only 3 countries can produce DU rounds?’ Does that in any way mean that it is not an ideal material for an APFSDS round? No, so what is your point? 😂
@@Potata767 Tool maker here. The bottom one is called a piercing mill. It is an actual tool and it is used in this very manner. The top one looks like a kinetic impactor that someone took a cutoff wheel to. I could be wrong on that, but the geometries match pretty well.
Anywho, the shape is not secondary to the material nor velocity. It is DETERMINED by the material and velocity. At low speeds both materials benefit from the parabola based point, AKA the bullet shape. The shape strikes the best balance between focusing the force on a small area of of the substrate AND distributing that force evenly across the punch to minimize plastic deformation.
A last note. The uranium impactor on the top is not hardened into a tool steel. I wouldn't recommend replicating this test with it hardened either. If it were hardened it would not show nearly any plastic deformation because it would shatter instead. The latter is the reason I don't recommend doing this t 72 Rockwell hardened depleted uranium.
If the depleted uranium were properly shaped for a piecing mill operation, and it was properly hardened, then it would outperform tungsten steel because it makes a better tool steel for this operation. Harder, denser, and less of a tradeoff between toughness, hardness and brittleness.
Uranium gets it's penetration power through velocity and when it impacts it starts deteriorating on the outer layer so it basically sharpens itself when penetrating armor.
But uranium is the top one.
@@butchcassidy9625yeah definitely because it just flattened out the tip of the armor piercing round and and didn't give it enough kinetic power to get hot on impact
@@butchcassidy9625you can also see it by looking at the tip because the tungsten rod got designed to only penetrate by its sheer weight on impact and not the selfsharpening aspect
@butchcassidy9625 Uranium is more dense but more malleable. Tungsten is a little lighter but a lot firmer. This test isn't to demonstrate which would be better shit out of a cannon.
as far as i understand uranium is more dense giving it a higher energy when fired and thus greater impact. however to penetrate a press by brute force without impact is no matter of density but hardness its simply a matter of which material is harder. i think both are used generally for tank shells and theres no big difference but i dont know much about weapons.
I would love to see the thermal imaging on this
for yall wondering,the shiny bar is depelted uranium,while the dirty bar (the one on the bottom)is tungesten
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Depleted Uranium is really dense, it's basically hyper lead. Which makes it really good for armor piercing munitions.
Tungsten has incredible tensile strength, it's basically steel on crack.
I love everyone not figuring out which is which. It's layout presentation. The first one mentioned is on the top.
It's so obvious.
Um... No, the top is Tungsten, bottom Uranium and I am positive of this. That black oxide coating on the bottom is Uranium. You can get shiny Tungsten you can not get Shiny Uranium as it quickly oxidizes
@@seditt5146 Literally Google depleted Uranium. Look at the Wikipedia picture. First result.
@@seditt5146 Top is uranium, depleted uranium.
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Nahh, it's depleted 238-uranium. It has lower radioactivity than enriched 235-uranium. Even then, it didn't reach critical mass yet. There's also no beryllium neutron reflectors.
Uranium by itself didn't explode.
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The bottom one had a far better point shape for piercing armor. It used the classic armor penetrator shell shape, the top one had a bery weak and unsupported point...
Doesn’t matter. Tungsten is really brittle so it would have shattered if it were pointy. But it’s so hard that you don’t even need a point, it could be a cube and it would still go through without deforming… I work with tungsten carbide and that’s only under diamond on the hardness scale anywhere between 8 and 9’5 depending on the quality…
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have you seen modern tank ammo? literally skinny, very pointy.
Correct; however. At high velocity, Uranium will shatter in a very predictable way-with the tip geometry seen on the top rod, it keeps the same point as the penetrator ...penetrates. Which is helpful for getting through ceramic armours.
Erm, no? The Uranium one was shaped like a modern APFSDS round.
I’m genuinely baffled that people can’t tell the difference immediately.
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The different shape makes the different result
Nope uranium is weak metal but have cery high density this material have good penetration only at very high speed
Tungsten is very hard material to it doesnt need great speed
No, uranium is just dense
@@Denisowatyno, depleted uranium is harder and denser than tungsten. Tungsten rounds deform when they hit their target while depleted uranium rounds fragment and make sharper projectiles (that are also flammable btw)
@@andrewlee8204 man, du is softer than tungsten. Most du alloys hardnes is around 50 HRC, they are softer than high hardness steel.
Ur such a midwit bro. Tungsten carbide is hard and brittle, it will never deform like that. DU is used as ammunition for large weapons because its a cheap, abundant, hazardous, and otherwise useless waste product that gets buried in the ground. Its much easier to machine.
Its used because its a waste byproduct and tungsten carbide is hilariously expensive and useful; and we do not mine tungsten in the US. We import all of the ore.
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Tungsten is the the bottom one, tungsten is a hard metal and is not malleable. Uranium is mailable
I don't think you should send uranium by mail, the government wouldn't be very happy about that
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The bottom one is Uranium bro... you can tell by its color.
@@omegawii Depleted uranium is top
Fun Fact: Tungsten is one of the hardest material and just to simply alter its demension huge amount of energy is required.
Hope you can differentiate now
Love the part where they label which item is made of uranium
Top is uranium, tungsten carbide would rather shatter than smush
The colors a good give away if you like metals😁
@@SoftHyphen.WRONG. Everyone does not know chemistry or so. Uranium does oxidize quicker in air than tungsten
@@politicstoday8002 it's not chemistry, and who says they had to be made at same time
@@SoftHyphen. it is, uranium reacts with oxygen to produce UO² pretty quickly , meanwhile tungsten takes more time for it to get oxidized.
if thats not chemistry what is it then?
For everyone trying to figure out which is which. The top one is uranium while the bottom is tungsten. People meep saying the coating is what tells you its the uranium but theres several reasons why thats false. 1 reason is uranium is silver smoke gray when its milled or cast. Its a softer metal but far dencer then tungsten with a proton count of 92 while tungsten has a proton count of 74. Tungsten is a brittle metal but has a hardness of 9.5 on the mohs scale while uranium is a 6, this is even softer then most mild steels. Do your own research and look up pictures of both, theres nothing special or secrete about chunks of metal. Hell id argue that top one isnt even uranium as refind metal uranium is controlled because you could make it into a weapon, not a nuke but a dirty bomb. It might be somthing like lead or aluminium as both are silver to smoky gray and are also soft metals.
Hope this helped anyone but again do your own research as half of the people in the comments cant even spell uranium let alone know what it even is in comparison and are the same people tell you which one is which
100% agree. Mohs hardness scale>visual appearance. People here also think that the depleted uranium manages to "self sharpen" and penetrate from the force produced by the hydraulic press as if it was impacting at mach 5...😆
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the pointy one is uranium or tungsten
It is uranium, the tungsten breaks and pierces the material. @@jlebrech
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For those wondering, bottom is tungsten. Tungsten doesn’t bend, it brakes.
I didn't realize that the tungsten was piercing the plate at first, I just thought it was getting crushed.
Uranium is bottom one
@@Sartpend1. That's not how uranium works or looks like. 2. There are multiple comments confirming the opposite of what you said, you're just wrong in this situation.
@@BOTB_RBLX there are how uranium looks like. A yellow metall thet easily oxidizing by air and turns black.
@@Sartpend deleted uranium piercing core, which someone else pointed out was the top one, looks literally the exact same as it, meanwhile you're just saying that's not how uranium looks like without proving anything. Just admit you're wrong and leave.
@@BOTB_RBLX just google how uranium looks like, lol. How should I prove you that is uranium on YT, lmao? Send photo by in mail or what?
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I love the way how uranium start a chain reaction about to explode, and blue lghit
I think we all know what cast aluminum looks like lmao
Nice try though
What do u mean?
@@vedob5163he is suggesting thst the plate that is punczured in the video is aluminium instead of steel of course the bottom one(tungsten) penetrates it so easily
@norbertnagy5514 but the plate is the same in both videos u can see the mark that the uranium left on the second video. The metal pins are the uranium and tunsten.
@@vedob5163 yeh, im not the one suggesting it.
@@norbertnagy5514 No he's suggesting the top piece of uranium is aluminium
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Guys uranium is obviously the one above and tungsten is the one below. Even for tanks and tank shells, depleted uranium is used as a substitute for the more expensive tungsten. However, this test doesn't really prove anything because APFSDS shells are so fast they act like liquids, so the only thing that matters is the density
(literally no one was talking about tanks)
@@DanY-mj4glwhy else would a video be showing uranium vs tungsten? Roughly projectile shaped against a plate? Like what else besides kinetic penetrators like APFSDS utilizes the physical properties of uranium and tungsten in this way?
@@DanY-mj4gl but this was was viewed by many tank enthusiasts, these two metals are used in penetrators so a lot of tank enthusiasts are here
@@AnotherTolmekian I'm one of them enthusiasts lol.
The video has nothing to do with projectile testing yet the commenter is saying that "this test doesn't really prove anything because I thought this video is about DU kinetic penetrators"
The hardest part of the video is to figure out which one is Tungsten and which one is uranium 😅
There's a reason I call them lead heads, the bottom one is tungsten.
ur name is physics guy bro how can u not know
Bro, its a part of elements and elements comes in chemistry...
@@Physics__guy You can tell that you are a gringo ALV, you better pay attention in class or if you don't even study anymore, then do your own research, I'm sure there are channels in English that explain these topics well. And if not, oh, it doesn't matter in Spanish, oh, several channels like ciencia de sofá They explain it well in an entertaining way and you can surely put the subtitles in English. You have no excuse, not even the lead in your body.
@@AngelCod-jh2qb Why do yall keep saying this, that is uranium, the black oxide gives it away. Bottom is uranium period.
For uranium to penetrate something, it doesn't just need weight. It needs speed. Like the speed of a shell being fired by an m1a1 abrams.
Uranium is used for armour piercing capabilities like A10 Avenger rotary gun and APFSDS cannon shell.
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Tungsten carbide is stronger and denser than depleted uranium. Depleted uranium is a preferred because it’s significantly cheaper and very abundant.
And cuz it self-sharpens
The shiney round on top is depleted uranium, on the bottom is tungsten carbide. If yall knew chemistry you would know, tungsten is a 9.6 on the hardness scale.
Сравнение неверно.
У этих стержней разная заточка.
У рижнего профиль зубила, рассчитанное на нагрузки.
А верхний в остриё, не удивительно что его погнуло...
Дело не в заточке, а в материале
Уран плотный но мягкий, он легко деформируется, но на большой скорости он легче вонзится, чем вольфрам. А вольфрам менее плотный, но гораздо более твёрдый, поэтому он легко вонзился, не повредившись. Из этих двух металлов делают подкалиберные ломы для БОПСов (бронебойных оперенных подкалиберных снарядов), причём уран используют как наконечник, а вольфрам как основное тело лома, что позволяет снаряду на скорости 1-2 км/сек. легко вонзаться в броню танка урановым наконечником и пробивать её дальше вольфравомым ломом
Особенность урана ещё и в том, что он при попадании в броню на высоких скоростях начинает скалываться как кремень постоянно образуя острую кромку(этакий самозатачивающийся карандаш) , откалывающиеся фрагменты крошки и пыли имеют свойство самовозгораться да и к тому же у урана выше плотность, а соответственно и выше кинетическая энергия. Единственное, что мешает его повсеместное применение в снарядах это радиоактивность, высокая токсичность и концерогенность.
Lol lots of confusion in the comments. The top is Uranium. Uranium is very soft and malleable, tungsten is the opposite. Under that sort of pressure, tungsten has two options,
Option 1: The entire core snaps, tungsten doesnt bend or flex under pressure its incredibly brittle. Density has nothing to do with malleabiltily.
Option 2. It penetrates the plate because its a much weaker material that is likely made of steel or some other sort of alloy.
Uranium flexes, bends, and is very soft. They do in fact share the same density, well pretty close. Im an NDT technician with a prerequisite of my job being materials engineering. Trust me on this, im about the only one here not talking out of their ass.
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tungsten has around 9.5 in toughness measures scale so it could penetrate it .. uranium has lower .
Nope,uranium oxidizes more quickly and you can see the UO2 here
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I think that piece of tungsten is an actual tungsten or hardened steel core from an apds round. Looks a heck of a lot like one
What is uranium and what tungsten?
It's aluminum vs steel
Top is uranium armor piercing round, and bottom is tungsten, the steel plate is the same.
Yes
Top: when she's sober
Bottom: when she's drunk
For a second i was expecting uranium to blow up into a fricking nuke
it cant unless its enriched, normal uranium isnt even that dangerous
To explain the use of depleted uranium in munitions, hardness is not the first or best characteristic for armour piercing ammunition, it is density. That is the reason for the usage of lead in bullets and shot since the dawn of firearms development. It means it can deliver and store more energy in the projectile to use it to penetrate, an excessively hard projectile would only shatter upon impact, reducing penetration. After all you can't drop a diamond on a tank and expect it to go through, but shoot a piece of cast iron with enough energy and it'll go through. Energy penetrates, not hardness.
This is one of the informative videos of all time
Me: "That tungsten didn't stand a chan- wait a minute 🫨"
Man, now I know what element to use. You can see how Uranium/Tungsten easily penetrates the metal plate, so the answer is clear. Thanks video editor.
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I like how they gave the bottom one the advantage by making it a thick rounded point and the top the disadvantage by making it more narrow.
For everyone still confused, I don't think it's the plate, I think it's the bit attached to the press. Uranium bent on a steel plate tungsten ate the steel plate
So son, that's how you were born....
at high velocity, the depleted uranium will actually sharpen itself as it penetrates its target, making it a good choice for armor piercing rounds, as it is commonly used for
Imagine compressing enriched uranium to critical mass, very safe
For anyone wondering top one is uranium & bottom one is tungsten, it's the tuffest metal know to man kind.
For those of you wondering why the Depleted Uranium (top) performed so much worse than the Tungsten Carbide (bottom) but is still considered the better perpetrator material, it's because the penetrative power largely comes from the mass of the projectile, not the hardness.
Sometimes you're the uranium, but sometimes you're the tungsten.
Depleted uranium is hella hard to get unless you have special DU licenses and ppe. Kinda think its just lead they are using in the video because:
1: uranium turns into its daughter product, lead, after millions of years from 4-200m years. So they might have used lead as a replacement for DU.
2: getting DU requires hella hard to get licenses and ppe + authorization from the government.
3: crushing DU is super dangerous as is can easily create airborne dust of radioactive material that would be way worse to breath in then asbestos. You would have your license revoked instantly if the government knows about it.
In a bomb shell, tungsten is usually used on the outside of the Uranium because tungsten can penetrate barriers better.
FOR THOSE WHO ACTURALLY NEEDS HELP IDENTIFYING THE STUFF: uranium is self sharping meaning it can pierce through just about anything, while tungsten like most metals bends and flattens.
Tungsten just violated the iron. 😅
For those of you who don't know, I'm an engineer, one clip shows uranium and the other clip shows tungsten. You're welcome.
A nice equal and fair comparison...
Even if I knew which was which, the fact that one is a pointed and the other a tear drop tip means it’s not a like for like test.
top is depleted uranium, bottom is tungsten carbide.
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