the mystery of mithril

[Gorwingel]

Yes it would be good to look at the actual data of the metals. Just to add on to information that Iargwath has...
According to my Periodic Table...
Titanium: Density: 7.13 g/cm^3
Silver: Density: 10.50 g/cm^3
Platinum: Density: 21.45 g/cm^3

And just to compare it to something else
Gold: Density: 19.3 g/cm^3

Titanium does have the much, much, much lower density. It is even much lower than silver than I expected. And I do know that if you want something to be lightweight and strong you would use Titanium (they make bikes too out of Titanium). Platinum is much too heavy, and it is hard to bend, and is actually quite dull. I heard somewhere that most Platinum jewelery is actually plated with Rhodium to give it increased shine and brilliance.

The reason that we have probably never seen a Titanium chain mail is that would be extremely expensive (much like Mithril), so the strength of it in a mail like application has probably never been tested.

But I still think the price of platinum is much higher per ounce than Titanium, but I am not sure.

<font size=1 color=339966>[ 4:36 AM December 22, 2003: Message edited by: Gorwingel ]