Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/17/84; site opus.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!houxm!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!tektronix!hplabs!hao!cires!nbires!opus!rcd From: rcd@opus.UUCP (Dick Dunn) Newsgroups: net.cooks,net.consumers Subject: Re: Report on pot materials Message-ID: <1004@opus.UUCP> Date: Thu, 27-Dec-84 15:57:06 EST Article-I.D.: opus.1004 Posted: Thu Dec 27 15:57:06 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 29-Dec-84 03:40:00 EST References: <1196@linus.UUCP> <990@opus.UUCP> <226@harvard.ARPA> Organization: NBI,Inc, Boulder CO Lines: 10 > ... > Copper is harder than aluminum, and presumably sturdier,... Careful here. Although aluminum itself may be softer than copper (don't have any materials handbooks handy), the aluminum used for cookware is both alloyed (to increase strength) and surface-hardened (apparently by a process like anodizing) so that it's quite a bit harder than copper. -- Dick Dunn {hao,ucbvax,allegra}!nbires!rcd (303)444-5710 x3086 ...Nothing left to do but smile, smile, smile.