Clive finds a paper produced by a couple of FOC research scientists with regards to the ore.
Atomic Weight: 322.430532 Atomic Number: 124
Specific Gravity: 31.4 (making it about 1.6 times heavier than gold or uranium).
Color: exhibits pleochroism, as it appears to have two colors, these being green and black.
Luster: metallic to pitchy and dull.
Texture: in its raw state it has a very rough texture reminiscent of sandpaper. In addition, it possesses a greasy feel, even after it has been worked into other forms.
Transparency: crystals are opaque. Crystal System: isometric, 6/m bar 4 3/m
Crystal Habit: large botryoidal, dark, lamellar reniform aggregates. De ned octahedral and cubic crystals are few.
Cleavage: rare in any direction due to the overall brittleness involved.
Hardness: on the Mohs scale of hardness it would rate greater than ten for its resistance to scratching—harder than diamond. (In the 1930’s, nothing known to man can scratch it.)
Malleability: the Brinell test is useless for determining its overall toughness as there currently isn’t a hard enough metal to make an impression in it.
Reactivity: it is unaffected by extremes of air, moisture, acids, or solvents. When exposed to detonation however, it undergoes a rapid chemical change followed by an explosive reaction.
Associated Minerals: none.
Melting Point: 8420° F (compared to the current record
holder Tungsten, which melts at around 6170° F).
Other Characteristics: non radioactive; very brittle, once its threshold for stress has been reached it shatters instead of bending.
