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Old 10-24-2007, 01:55 AM   #9 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Dreadnought View Post
It also ranks as the heaviest metal (natural occuring) on the perioic table I believe. Given its weight and what it is used for it is not hard to imagine why it is so powerful in size to explosion or implosion comparrison ratio.
Do you mean atomic weight or density? Osmium is the densest metal. Uranium has the largest atomic weight of a naturally occurring element. Plutonium is heavier, but it is not found in nature, nor is it the heaviest of the man-made elements.

edit: I lied. Plutonium is found in extraordinarily small amounts in nature.
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