| | |   Raw tungsten carbide pellet. This is a pellet of sintered tungsten carbide (with cobalt as the binder).  I made it myself using a graphite mold (listed under carbon) and an acetylene torch.  Check out the neighboring sample to see what I did with it.
 You can read more in my Popular Science column on the topic.
 Source: Theodore Gray
 Contributor: Theodore Gray
 Acquired: 1 December, 2008
 Text Updated: 2 December, 2008
 Price: $1
 Size: 0.5"
 Purity: >60%
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