Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-27502630-20151009034409/@comment-26501321-20151009231525

Heinsk wrote:

Ronaldo Smith wrote:

Heinsk wrote:

Steven universe is cool wrote: Tungsten is a metal I do believe I have herd of it. Some time of thing like tin. The crew quoted Tungsten since it has one of the biggest elastic modulus (it can handle up to 411 GPa of pressure) and it can handle super high temperatures (up to 5555°C, @ 1atm). It would still be as useless as paper at the Earth's core. They will need elements from the Island of Stability that is theorized to exist beyond the known elements. Keep on mind that the melting point depends of the atmospherical pressure. At 1 atm (~115KPa) it has a very big one. I'm pretty sure the drill would handle the travel all the way to the earth's core (assuming they would be able to, as we know from "Giant Woman" that gems have issues handling high temperatures). The deeper you go, the more pressure there is, and that would raise the melting point of the metal, so there's no way tungsten will melt until it reaches the core itself, which is too hot.