Talk:Orikalkum Metal/@comment-109.163.234.3-20140130214753/@comment-11555902-20140130222345

Pretty sure psi = Pounds per Square Inch, and afte looking Inconel up, apparently its some kind of super alloy... Virtually no amount of kinetic energy that you could produce from hitting it with something would cause the sword to break. 220,000 pounds of preasure per square inch is required for it to buckle... My question if you had a lump of this irl could you cut into with with say, a simple steel knife...

Really, when I think of weapons such as steel, mithril, adamant, etc, its not that the better the metal = sharper the blade. Its just that maybe the brittleness of one metal is greater than the other... Irl if you had a steel sword and you hit say, a bronze sword. It wouldn't instently chop though. The fact that the metal is together would stop the sword at some point but the bronze sword would quickly become useless due to its brittleness compared to steels'. I'm going to assume the same goes for metals in runescape as they get stronger. However there is a point where this metal is always so strong, so even that this other metal is stronger it still requires alot more kinetic energy to cut into it. For example A dragon sword can insta cut though a bar of adament. (This isn't star wars where lightsabers cut though everything.) The structure of adament is already powerful, it'd me more or less like a lumber jack cutting down a tree with a steel axe. The axe is going to win the fight against the side of the tree, but its still going to take awile to cut it down...

In roleplay, a dragon warhammer wouldn't do anymore or any less than a adament warhammer, because in this case its all about how much kinetic energy you can apply. Both types of metels are going to stay together, they will, so its a matter of how hard you can hit, not what its made of.

Now back to the subject of Inconel, When I think about irl metals compared to