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Potbelly

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therocketeer

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I like this alot. Especially the creativeness of a fictional element ^_^ This is the sort of thing that would make tpt interesting, +1

sandstorm

wes12321

well, the tantalum part might be fictional, but the hafnium carbide part is not, many drill bits have a titanium hafnium carbide film at the end, it keeps the bit from dulling quickly when drilling through metal. cool suggestion, though

Videogamer555

Tantalum hafnium carbide is real. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tantalum_hafnium_carbide
Its most obvious important property is that in real life, it has the highest melting point of all known substances. It's not an element (of which tungsten has the highest melting point), nor is it a naturally occurring compound. It only exists as a manmade compound, and its melting point is 4488K. The only thing fictional about the substance suggested as a TPT element is that it would be given a melting point of 5488K (1000K higher than its actual melting point) in TPT (and also in TPT it would be called an "element", though to be fair that's what all substances in TPT are called, as TPT doesn't differentiate between compound and element).

belugawhale

This would be very useful, considering that we do not have a high melting point solid that does not break under pressure.

tmo97

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Klus

Hafnium Carbide has the highest melting point out of all compounds consisting of only two elements (3900).

Thorium Oxide has the highest melting point out of all oxides (3390).

I don't know why I never heard of this. But I know the Formula is Ta4HfC5. Also, the melting point in Degrees Celsius is 3880. So adding Hafnium Carbide would be better, because all three have excellent conductivity and resistance to chemical attack, pressure and thermal shock.

Tantalum Hafnium Carbide