well they do have percentages posted from the nids report...nids identified 22 elements in the metal. there are eight or nine in a 360 or variation of that particlar aluminum alloy or for that matter any aluminum alloy manufactured now and that is what nids compared the metal to.

you wont see spillage form in the layered chad effect in aluminum..think of moltem aluminum like liquid mercury...same properties when aluminum is liquid or molten...

in this case the obvious isnt obvious at all.. steel or iron will layer..aluminum dont and that is a fact..not an opinion.

most of my work has been with engine blocks for high performance outboards in a formula 4 engines..lost foam casting...we cast alot of our own parts for injection systems and such..

check lymans book of alloys...do a search for aluminum composites for the list of elements...

they got a vickers hardness scale in this thing in the 61-61 range..thats not bad at all...hardly bad or scrap with that rating...in fact thats pretty inpressive.












I did some digging around the internet for more info on the object. Here's a couple of webpages that I found. the first one has all the specific details of the analysis of the object done in 1996. that was the first testing done. since then they have had 7 more labs do work on it.

http://www.nidsci.org/articles/metal/analysis2.html

I then looked up info on 360 Aluminum Alloy Casting as mentioned on the first webpage. Here's what I found:

http://www.legaluminum.com/alloys.phtml

I noticed that the make-up of the object is not as close a match to 360 Aluminum Alloy Casting as the NIDS page would lead you to believe in it's findings. Especially in relation to the exotic minerals found. Also, I found an interesting statement in the conlcusions portion relating to the formation of the object relating to how it cooled.

The presence of porosity together with the apparent flow lines suggests that uncontrolled cooling took place. thats not normal in any plant making a cast...that is controlled always.

Here's another website that has chemcial properties of the 360 Alloy. Note the differences in chemical make-up from the object.

http://www.la-diecast.com/alumspec.htm

the basic elemental tests plus the very unusual formation of the metal make it more than interesting...

isotope abundance ration tests need to be done and some other testing that would isolate the more rare elements in the object.

i think it should be looked at alot closer..the way i see it is if this is some sort of hoax you dont go and take lie detector tests from cops and you dont ask for the best labs and universities to look at this.

this thing what ever it is didnt fall off the watermellon truck coming out of mississippi.

all id say is if you think this is some sort of spillage there ought to be some really cool pictures of something like it on the world wide web..

ive looked and i sure havnt found anything..

i dont know what it is but i do know what it aint...it aint spillage or dribble from a casting form..in other words is wasnt cast in any process im aware of..

that to me makes it VERY INTERESTING.

metal head..