Tempered Steel

  • TheTempest
    23rd Aug 2011 Member 0 Permalink
    Okay here me out on this. I'm thinking a conductive solid, that is fairly breakable with pressure. BUT, perhaps once heated to a certain temperature or melted and cooled, it becomes much more difficult to break.

    Uses: Heat-responsive shields I guess.... I'm sure there are some uses.... just an idea, hate it or not I don't really care, I was just superheating and cooling METL with console and had this idea.
  • cctvdude99
    23rd Aug 2011 Member 0 Permalink
    @TheTempest
    I could put it in my mod.

    TheTempest:

    breakable with pleasure.


    Urhm. Typo on pressure... Or easy to break?
    I'm not quite sure.
  • TheTempest
    23rd Aug 2011 Member 0 Permalink
    @cctvdude99
    Um... I can't say anything to that. Yes, a typo... got something else lingering in my mind.
  • cctvdude99
    23rd Aug 2011 Member 0 Permalink
    @TheTempest
    Dude... Lol.

    Anyway, I'm thinking of ways to do this...
    I think I have one now.
    I'll use these temperatures:

    Wikipedia:

    The steel is then tempered by heating between the ranges of 150–260 °C (302–500 °F) and 370–650 °C (698–1202 °F). Tempering in the range of 260–370 °C (500–698 °F) is sometimes avoided to reduce temper brittling. The steel is held at that temperature until the carbon trapped in the martensite diffuses to produce a chemical composition with the potential to create either bainite or pearlite (a crystal structure formed from a mixture of ferrite and cementite). When producing a truly bainitic or pearlitic steel the steel must be once again taken up to the austenite region (austenizing) and cooled slowly to a controlled temperature before being fully quenched to a low temperature.
  • TheTempest
    23rd Aug 2011 Member 0 Permalink
    @cctvdude99
    Nice, I like it.
  • cctvdude99
    23rd Aug 2011 Member 0 Permalink
    @TheTempest
    Self reply? Lololol
  • EqualsThree
    23rd Aug 2011 Member 0 Permalink
    @cctvdude99 (View Post)
    OMG LMFAO.....


    How about...when this Metal is hotter, easier to break, but when colder, harder to break?
  • TheTempest
    23rd Aug 2011 Member 0 Permalink
    @EqualsThree I was going to say just edit the whole temper thing into metl but it would probably break a few saves somehow.
    @cctvdude99
    Not a self reply, I meant I like the idea of you modding it that way.
  • jenn4
    23rd Aug 2011 Member 0 Permalink
    @TheTempest (View Post)
    You replyed yorself. Like I now @jenn4 (View Post)
  • TheTempest
    23rd Aug 2011 Member 0 Permalink
    @jenn4
    Oh, I see. Fail xD