Thursday, June 10, 2010

Explore the fascinating world of Chinese tungsten paperweights


"Tungsten paperweight is composed of a metal alloy, tungsten heavy alloy. The alloy allows for maximum hardness and rigidity without sacrificing tensile strength. Each tungsten paperweight is polished with diamond tools. Hardness, assuring long lasting beauty, permanently polished. Tungsten paperweight takes a brilliant high polish and resists scratching longer than any metal ever offered to the public. Roughly ten times harder than 18k gold and four times harder than Titanium, Tungsten paperweight will never bend out of shape.

It is also possible to have "custom" bars made to your specifications."

"In theory, as its density is 19.1g/cm3, which is approximately 70% denser than lead, uranium could be used as material of making fake coin. However, it is weakly radioactive and not as dense as gold, so it does not appear to be a practical method.

Then people have discovered that tungsten is environmental-friendly, durable and hardness, the most important is that its density of 19.25g/cm3 is just about the same density as gold (19.3g/cm3), which bears the similar specific gravity. These advantages make tungsten enjoys the superiority to be the best substitute for the costly metal of gold or platinum. It is necessary to tell that alloying gold with tungsten would not work for several reasons but a coin with a tungsten center and gold all around it could not be detected as counterfeit by density measurement alone."



However, please note...

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23 comments:

Anonymous said...

meanwhile,,,over in the Gulf of Mecico

Shares in BP have plummeted another 12% at the start of London trading, amid fears President Obama will impose massive penalties on the company.

It means the oil giant's share price has almost halved since the Deepwater Horizon oil spill began on 20 April.

BP's share price opened at 348.6 pence - its lowest level since 1997 - before recovering to 360p in early trading.

nice video of the fuck up BP made..note the flames!

BP oil leak

Anonymous said...

More civilian deaths in Afghanistan, unsurprisingly blamed on the Taliban...

Dozens killed in Kandahar

Anonymous said...

thats payback for the NATO(US) helicopter shot down yesterday,,that how it works,,,kill,out military we kill your citizens,,think twice before you shoot us down.

Stef said...

I'm feeling so very, very 1960s at the moment

Stock up on Chinese tungsten paperweights now!

Stef said...

One of the ConspiraGriffins maintains that the US and Europe are currently locked in a covert economic death struggle and that the recent fall in the Euro is the result of a deliberate assault on its weakest point, Greece

The disembowling and subsequent take-over of BP slots in very nicely with this thesis

though even open-minded old me has trouble contemplating the thought that anyone would be so potty as to torpedo an oil rig

The results of such an exercise would be so damned unpredictable

whatever, it's another nail in the coffin for any of those baby boomers who actually thought they were going to retire with their small share of the proceeds of the last 20-30 years of pillage

Stef said...

aangirfan on BP...

Anon said...

Play us off against each other, sounds about right...

Stef said...

“Pretty much every pension fund in the country owns a bit of BP and it has now fallen some £45billion in value.” Mr Smith added that with the markets expected to struggle, pension funds were likely to sink even further.

“In times like these, with the continuing European debt crisis, there is a lot of nervousness on the markets,” he added. The share collapse means a £15,000-a-year pension will be cut by about £300 to £400 a year, with possibly worse to come.

The BBC’s business editor Robert Peston said: “Given that BP is a core holding of most British pension funds, that’s tens of billions of pounds off the wealth of millions of British people saving for a pension.

“With BP dividends representing about 8 per cent of all income going into those pension funds, and a considerably higher proportion of all corporate dividends received by those funds, if BP’s oil spill causes collateral damage to its dividend-paying capacity, many of us will be feeling a bit poorer.”

Other experts warned that BP could collapse altogether, a fear that sent shock waves through world markets


there's just too much stuff going down right now all over the world for anyone to say 'shit happens' and not have just teensy weensy doubt that some of it isn't being managed

Stef said...

now, more than ever, Chinese tungsten paperweights are your passport to complete financial peace of mind

Anon said...

Anyone who hasn't figured out by now that the stock markets are rigged needs their head checking.

Stef said...

the problem is that anyone looking to try and save money for a pension, or in case of harder times, has a limited number of choices

- the stock market? (rigged)
- property? (you need a lot of money and its over-priced anyway)
- a savings a/c? (paying 0.5% when money is losing 5%+ of its value every year)

Most people seem to think we live under a capitalist system. We don't.

It's not just the stock market, it's the whole money system that's rigged

We live under a kleptocracy that's set up so that ordinary people cannot accumulate capital. Which is why wealth continues to flow towards and accumulate with the the top <1%

unless, of course, you are smart enough to bury a tidy pile of Chinese tungsten paperweights in your back garden

Stef said...

...if we really did live in a thriving capitalist system people would be putting their money into genuine productive investments, on a local as well as a national scale; subbing new and small businesses, buying stuff that made stuff, that sort of thing

Anon said...

Tangible items (aside from Tungsten paperweights of course)? :p

Anon said...

Catherine Austin-Fitts knows the specifics better than me though when it comes to investments.

Stef said...

CAF can see which way the wind's blowing

Anon said...

I thought I'd see if I could persuade an Orange Telecom rep that we're headed for high-tech feudalism... perhaps futile, but it did bring out some interesting statements from a supposedly educated person.

Thought I'd quote this gem:

"The difference between rich and poor is irrelevant, beyond any effect it has on the purchasing power of the poor. The purchasing power of the poor has increased massively, the fact they haven't used it well is largely irrelevant to that."

Spot anything wrong with that?

Stef said...

does that enhanced purchasing power extend to housing and non lethal food-like products?

or just shit?

Stef said...

in fairness, your average joe or josephine did have a good run in the post war years, but that took a downward turn in the 70s/80s

thanks to the credit explosion, the move to two income households and the state flogging off public assets most people didn't notice the turnaround

the credit is maxed out
the labour market is saturated
and the assets have been sold

now what?

Stef said...

I still fondly remember the golden days back in the 1990s when mainstream journalists were telling us that, thanks to fabulous advances in productivity, a 'leisure bonus' was just around the corner

feckin' twunts

Stef said...

still, it was awfully nice of those foreigners to grow all that food and make all that shit for us for not much money at all

...and to let us keep buying that shit, even though we were broke, by accepting our crap paper and lending us the money they'd managed to save even on their shitty wages

awfully nice

Stef said...

on reflection, I am forced to conclude, that Mr Telecom man is an ignorant plum

for his sake, I hope he doesn't have a super dooper mortgage and a stock-market based pension plan

otherwise, there's a strong chance that he's going to get a very sore bottom

Anon said...

Nah, he didn't sound old enough to be around back then, it was a reference to Labour's recent tenure. Still, he did entertain the discussion instead of cutting me off for the next caller...

Anon said...

On the plus side, the bloke sat opposite me on the train home did seem to get the picture. He even involved himself in my conversation with my colleagues without prompting, saying that house prices will\should fall.