A gold-dipped bar of tungsten is virtually indistinguishable from a bar of gold.
You did not hear that from me.

I live on the 3rd floor of my building and I once had a UPS guy come up and knock with nothing in hand. I answered, and he was like “Brb, I was making sure someone was here before I hauled 80 pounds of ammo up the stairs”.

Bullets for reloading are typically sold in packages designed to fit in medium flat rate boxes. My postman hates when he gets those 60lb boxes of lead, and I typically ordered 3-4 cases at a time.

But apparently tungsten is still a deal if you’re buying iphones by weight.

Lead is the better value, pound-for-pound.

for when your D&D has to be the most metal...

Tungsten is also prohibitively more expensive than lead, given the same mass.

Metal Man...

My wedding ring is tungsten carbide.  On top of being stupidly heavy for its size it’s similar to constantly wearing one ring of a set of brass knuckles.  It will do some damage.

Whoa there, stop throwing out all those science-y terms. Some of us went to public school.

Jason! Norse Foundry makes tungsten dice! $500 for (7) 16mm dice.

One of my coworkers once had to acquire some tungsten for a work project, that’s when he learned that NASCAR teams sell last year’s block on eBay. He also learned that the USPS means it when they say “if it fits, it ships”, although the postman was not amused when he delivered it.

Don’t give them ideas. Frame 1: Five pound bar of tungsten. Frame 2: Eight pound bar of tungsten. Frame 3: Ten pound bar...

Dude! You are soooo METAL!

Tungsten is 1.74 times heavier than lead, given the same volume,

I appreciate the depth of this article Jason. And that it’s not a slideshow. Thank you. 

Fun fact: gold has about the same density as tungsten, 19.3 kg/L.

In the midwest, especially the upper midwest (like at the top of Michigan’s lower peninsula), lakes and rivers sometimes freeze.

Kinda weird how quickly I accepted and normalized Ran’s unicorn hair in my brain when I still read Det. Conan. Maybe because nearly all manga characters in the 90s and early 00s were all spiky and shit. But Takumi’s explanation makes sense. Probably to make her character fit in that decade’s manga characters more.