What material can be sharpened to the finest point?

[Twoply 0]

I heard cobolt can be sharpened to a point a few atoms across.

What other materials are good?

[GaryRay 0]

ceramic

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[muff528 3]

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I heard cobolt can be sharpened to a point a few atoms across.

What other materials are good?

Liberal Arts college professors' heads.

[aardvarkeater 0]

Adamantium

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[iambeav2 0]

+1....for all the nerds out there.

...it's not the fact that you don't appreciate what you have until it's gone...it's the fact that you don't appreciate what you have until someone appreciates it for you!

[davelepka 4]

What is wrong with you? You post about the most odd and random topics, and none of it seems to make any sense.

Public Serivce Announcement - Twoply is no longer a skydiver! Not only has he not made jump number one this season (and he is young and health with enough money to get current) nor has he shown his face at any dropzone.

He has, however, made plenty of time for BASE jumping! News flash Mr. Ply, there's a forum for people like you, it's called basejumper.com, why don't you go over there and bother those people with your bizzare topics of conversation. Those people are just as weird as you, and would probably have some input for you.

Speaking of input, I have some ideas about what and where you should be inputing some things!! You know what I'm talking about!!!

This is no joke. If you don't clear out of here, I'll move into your new neighborhood and rally the neighborhood against you, just like I did the last time.

Good day sir (I don't really mean that)

[shropshire 0]

Nothing sharper than the wit in the BF

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[MikeJD 0]

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What is wrong with you? You post about the most odd and random topics, and none of it seems to make any sense.

Hey now. I like random topics in The Bonfire. They make a change from the same old predictable stuff.

And Twoply has shown his face at a dropzone - this one.

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I heard cobolt can be sharpened to a point a few atoms across.

What other materials are good?

Liberal Arts college professors' heads.

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When the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.

[Misternatural 0]

Turtlespeed's cranium

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Nothing sharper than the wit in the BF

You're confusing sharp and dull.

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[shropshire 0]

Oh yeah, so I am

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Chivalry is not dead; it only sleeps for want of work to do. - Jerome K Jerome

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What other materials are good?

Unobtainium, if you can get hold of some.

[skiskyrock 0]

We used to use etched tungsten wire to make tips for a scanning tunneling microscope (these can image individual atoms under the right conditions). I've had those stuck nearly an inch into my hand and never felt a thing because the tip was so sharp.

[BaronVonBoll 0]

There is a Diamond scalple used to cut viruses for disection under an electron microscope. It cant be toucheb by your hands or the oil on your skin will dull the blade.

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There is an atomic force imager that works by placing a single atom of carbon (I believe) over the surface of the molecule it is trying to image. The atomic force (hence the name) interacting between that single atom and the molecule kind of acts like a needle and grooves in a record is what makes the whole thing possible.

You're just not going to get any sharper than a stylus with a single atom for a tip.

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[Twoply 0]

I hope you drown in a pool of seminal fluid.

[warpedskydiver 0]

Obsidian