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[Oliolli]

If adamantine is a super material, why does clothing woven from it degrade as fast as common plant and animal fibers?

Dwarven sweat.

[Arkenstone]

My personal theory is that heat activates the powers of adamantine proper, so that raw adamantine strands are useable for cloth and sutures, but forged adamantine can slice through boulders.

Right, that's what I thought too.  I figure that the strands themselves must be flexible to be made into cloth, and therefore malliable to some extent.  But when it gets heated and forged, impurities are pounded out and/or carbon is incorperated, and its properties change.

That's why I said the wafer would have to be forged non-stop; I figured it'd be like the Adamantium in Wolverine's skeleton -how it was once malliable, but became indistructible once it cooled.

[hjd_uk]

That reminds me of how as humans we create single-crystal metal ingots, i.e a *perfect*, molecularly continuous, large lump of metal.

This is a sinlge molecule (crystal) of Silicon:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

[DungeonJerk]

adamantine is so rigid it doesn't lose sharpness
so sharp it can cut through quite literally anything with complete ease.
Theoretically this battleaxe could cut through the foundation of a building without making the owner break out in a sweat.

So I don't think cleaving someone in two is a problem

We need this stuff in real life. Adamantine car's would rock.

[forsaken1111]

adamantine is so rigid it doesn't lose sharpness
so sharp it can cut through quite literally anything with complete ease.
Theoretically this battleaxe could cut through the foundation of a building without making the owner break out in a sweat.

So I don't think cleaving someone in two is a problem

We need this stuff in real life. Adamantine car's would rock.

You'd need to weight down an Adamantine car so it wouldn't float off the ground at speed...

[DungeonJerk]

adamantine is so rigid it doesn't lose sharpness
so sharp it can cut through quite literally anything with complete ease.
Theoretically this battleaxe could cut through the foundation of a building without making the owner break out in a sweat.

So I don't think cleaving someone in two is a problem

We need this stuff in real life. Adamantine car's would rock.

You'd need to weight down an Adamantine car so it wouldn't float off the ground at speed...

That shouldn't be a problem, especially if you got fat friends

[GoldenShadow]

Just install some spoilers to add downforce.

[Vanaheimer]

Just install some spoilers to add downforce.

Wings, not spoilers. Spoilers make the car cut through the air more easily, big difference.

And a wing wouldn't produce any worthwhile amount of downforce until a good 100 MPH.

Not to mention with the stiffness of adamantine every single crash above maybe 20MPH would be lethal, with no areas that will crumple the car would bounce backwards, the g-forces would mangle you beyond all recognition.

There are more reasons, but... adamantine car=REALLY bad idea...

[DungeonJerk]

Just install some spoilers to add downforce.

Wings, not spoilers. Spoilers make the car cut through the air more easily, big difference.

And a spoiler wouldn't produce any worthwhile amount of downforce until a good 100 MPH.

Not to mention with the stiffness of adamantine every single crash above maybe 20MPH would be lethal, with no areas that will crumple the car would bounce backwards, the g-forces would mangle you beyond all recognition.

There are more reasons, but... adamantine car=REALLY bad idea...

Probably is, but you gotta admit. It would look cool.

[Vanaheimer]

Nah, I prefer deeper blue colours

[NonconsensualSurgery]

Aircraft engineers would fall in love.

[tahujdt]

@Vanaheimer: Then get a Chevy Cobaltite.

[Oliolli]

Aircraft engineers would fall in love.

The military in general would fall in love...

[Sting_Auer]

Aircraft engineers would fall in love.

The military in general would fall in love...

Little adamantine discs shot with compressed air and attached to a chain so that you can retract it and fire it again

[Blizzlord]

Just install some spoilers to add downforce.

Wings, not spoilers. Spoilers make the car cut through the air more easily, big difference.

And a wing wouldn't produce any worthwhile amount of downforce until a good 100 MPH.

Not to mention with the stiffness of adamantine every single crash above maybe 20MPH would be lethal, with no areas that will crumple the car would bounce backwards, the g-forces would mangle you beyond all recognition.

There are more reasons, but... adamantine car=REALLY bad idea...

I would interpret "spoilers" as a slade frame in this case ^.^