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Old May 5th, 2009, 15:08   #22
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Originally Posted by MikeG View Post

I tried the materials search at MatWeb mentioned earlier with the parameters of:
Melting Point: 500C to 1800C
Density: 2.35g/cc to 2.45g/cc
and the only result I came up with was this glass:
http://www.matweb.com/search/DataShe...eddd3bf252322b

It is still possible that the BBs could be made up of a composite of other materials that do not fit into the parameters I searched for, but the simplest explanation is still that they are made of some type of glass.
Mike a lot of material roughly fit those densities.
http://www.engineering.uiowa.edu/~cf...bles/1-86B.pdf
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