Piute County News | 1945-12-21 | Page 12 | Hard Metal

hard nacial v metal near bearin in hardness to the jsn is d product of the relatively velY new new science ot of powder metallurgy it la 19 made by mixing powdered veered ered tungsten carbide a and nd cobalt alt finer than flour pressing this together luider tremendous pressure and then heating citing fi it in furnaces to up in the thousands ot of degrees decrees this fuses the powders together to form a metal that is not only the hardest metal known to science but Is also extremely dense and weighs roughly one halt half again as much a as lead leaa