DIYbanter - View Single Post - OK what is the diferance between carbide and powdered metal ?

wrote:

As two of the participants have pointed out the language is a bit
unclear here. The great majority of the leaders in these fields seem
to be willing to accept a variety of terms somewhat interchangeably.

Tom:

I'll post the same question to you that I did to Unknown. Can tungsten
carbide tooling (since it is an intimate "mixture" of tungsten, carbon,
and cobalt), be correctly referred to as metallic or a metal since the
finished product has
metallic properties?

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