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Uranium at it's elemental density is a comparable price to tungsten??


Yeah, it's part of what makes it so fantastic as armor piercing ammunition. And tank armor.


6 hours later, I'm an idiot who read density instead of price.

Funny thing is, while Depleted Uranium is about the same density as tungsten, it's also a fair bit cheaper (for major nuclear governments) because it's an otherwise nearly useless byproduct of the uranium enrichment process, and there's around a million tons of it sitting in storage worldwide.




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