Cliff wrote in newsnvjt197s4p5onamd50n9qo0d2kbk4gjhi@
4ax.com:

On 27 Jan 2006 06:35:40 GMT, D Murphy wrote:

But as the debate was raging I kept wondering if perhaps it was the
German word for carbide (hartmetall) that leads to confusion.

But the German word for Carbide seems to be Karbid.

If you say so...

http://www.google.com/search?sourcei...lient&ie=UTF-8
&rls=GGLD,GGLD:2004-13,GGLD:en&q=hartmetall

That search turned up a bunch of tooling companies.

http://www.google.com/search?sourcei...lient&ie=UTF-8
&rls=GGLD,GGLD:2004-13,GGLD:en&q=Karbid

That search returned mostly sites talking about fonts and other stuff
unrelated to tooling.

Carbide and cemented carbide or Tungsten carbide used in tooling are two
different things.

HTH

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Dan