Has anyone donated more low-background steel to the bottom of the ocean than Germany?
>>64694016What's low background?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-background_steel
>>64694038What's meant by donating?
>>64694038>Some specialized particle detectors, including CUORE and Canfranc Underground Laboratory, have used low-background lead for shielding. This is sourced from ancient Roman and perhaps ancient Greek leadThat is really cool.
>>64694016Do you mean pre nuclear steel?
*laughs in pby catalina*
>>64694016Can't that stuff be made new from a climate-controlled facility and raw ore?
>>64694016Imperial Japan donated virtually its entire navy to the low background steel industry and for that we owe them a great debt.>>64694030Steel that was made before the first atomic bomb test in 1945. It's used to make radiation-sensitive instruments like Geiger counters because post-1945 steel is contaminated by increased background radiation.
>>64694072Nobody does open air testing anymore so all new steel is basically low background again, yeah.
>>64694072Theoretically possible but impossible from a practical standpoint. It takes vast amounts of oxygen to make steel, oxygen which will be impregnated into the metal with any contaminants it contains, so the material cost to do this on an even small industrial scale would likely be incredibly expensive unless pure oxygen somehow gets cheaper.t. Google
>>64694094Dawg “low background steel” can be literally any ferromagnetic alloy, you can just smelt iron in an inert atmosphere in an arc furnace, maybe even under partial vacuum to introduce CO or some other carbon bearing gas later in the smelt to carburize the iron into steel if you need some structural strength from the material.
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>>64694094>oxygen which will be impregnated into the metalAre you retarded?>t. Google [AI assistant]oh nevermind
>>64694050Come on brother use that brain
>>64694016Bruh...the UK alone lost two battleships, a battlecruiser, four aircraft carriers and three escort carriers in Europe alone. There are also a gorrillion of cruisers and destroyers lost during WW2. Finally the sheer amount of British merchantmen sunk during both wars dwarfs the entirety of Germany's shipbuilding.
>>64694157Link to the website tracking this?
