"Don Wilkins" wrote in message
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On 6 Feb 2004 17:29:55 -0800,
(benwoodward.com) wrote:

,;Thank you for your replies. TC is a ceramic then. I was totally
,;unaware just how alien to steel tc is. I'm classifying it under 'alien
,;technology successfully reverse engineered' and leaving it at that.:-)

I certainly would not classify WC as a ceramic.

The you would certainly be wrong, Don. WC is a ceramic. Tungsten-carbide
tools are made of a powder-metallurgy composite of WC ceramic and metal
powders.

Ed Huntress