• Wirlocke@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    6 months ago

    Listen there’s definitely enough carbon in the body to boost that into a steel sword.

    If we can make diamonds out of corpses, we can make steel.

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          6 months ago

          Way too brittle if it was the weight of a typical sword, and way too heavy otherwise.

          On the other hand, the cutting edge of that sword would be pretty amazing while it lasted.

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              6 months ago

              Do you mean just the edge? Because with a sword basically the whole thing other than the handle is the blade.

              But yeah, with a tiny diamond edge you’d probably have the best of both worlds, a light, flexible sword with an ultra-sharp cutting edge.

              Still, the edge probably wouldn’t last for long. If the diamond was attached to a steel blade and the blade flexed, the diamond couldn’t flex and would probably snap.