[meteorite-list] Odd Gibeon Request

[Impactika at aol.com]

In a message dated 8/8/2006 8:31:09 P.M. Mountain Standard Time,  
cynapse at charter.net writes:
On Tue, 8 Aug 2006 22:27:21 EDT, you  wrote:

>He wants to bend them and solder them end to end to make a  large circle. 

How well does meteoritic iron bend?  I'd think (not  being a metallurgist, and
possibly not even spelling it right) that the large  intergrown crystal zones
would make the metal  brittle.
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Good question.
And probably something the author of that request didn't think about.
And another thing: I would think that heating the metal, and then hammering  
it into shape, would destroy permanently the crystallization pattern.  Right?

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