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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ordinary Fool, post: 2765673, member: 85318&quot;][USER=79993]@Mad Stax[/USER]</p><p><br /></p><p>Just like our 95/5 cents have uses as-alloyed and melting makes production ready:</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;<b>Nickel Manganese</b> is one of numerous metal alloys sold by American Elements under the trade name<a href="https://www.americanelements.com/alloys.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.americanelements.com/alloys.html" rel="nofollow"> AE Alloys™</a>. Generally immediately available in most volumes,<a href="https://www.americanelements.com/alloys.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.americanelements.com/alloys.html" rel="nofollow"> AE Alloys™</a> are available as bar, ingot, ribbon, wire, shot, sheet, and foil. <a href="https://www.americanelements.com/Ultra_high_purity_metals_powders.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.americanelements.com/Ultra_high_purity_metals_powders.htm" rel="nofollow">Ultra high purity</a> and high purity forms also include metal <a href="https://www.americanelements.com/metals.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.americanelements.com/metals.html" rel="nofollow">powder</a>, <a href="https://www.americanelements.com/nanomaterials-nanoparticles-nanotechnology.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.americanelements.com/nanomaterials-nanoparticles-nanotechnology.html" rel="nofollow">submicron</a> powder and <a href="https://www.americanelements.com/nanomaterials-nanoparticles-nanotechnology.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.americanelements.com/nanomaterials-nanoparticles-nanotechnology.html" rel="nofollow">nanoscale</a>, <a href="https://www.americanelements.com/sputtering-targets.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.americanelements.com/sputtering-targets.html" rel="nofollow">targets</a> for <a href="https://www.americanelements.com/thin-film-evaporation-materials.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.americanelements.com/thin-film-evaporation-materials.html" rel="nofollow">thin film</a> deposition, and pellets for <a href="https://www.americanelements.com/thin-film-evaporation-materials.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.americanelements.com/thin-film-evaporation-materials.html" rel="nofollow">chemical vapor deposition (CVD)</a> and <a href="https://www.americanelements.com/thin-film-evaporation-materials.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.americanelements.com/thin-film-evaporation-materials.html" rel="nofollow">physical vapor deposition (PVD)</a> applications. American Elements produces to many standard grades when applicable, including Mil Spec (military grade); ACS, Reagent and Technical Grade; Food, Agricultural and Pharmaceutical Grade; Optical Grade, <a href="http://www.usp.org/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.usp.org/" rel="nofollow">USP</a> and <a href="http://www.pharmacopoeia.co.uk/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.pharmacopoeia.co.uk/" rel="nofollow">EP/BP</a> (European Pharmacopoeia/British Pharmacopoeia) and follows applicable <a href="http://www.astm.org/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.astm.org/" rel="nofollow">ASTM </a>testing standards. Typical and custom packaging is available. Primary applications include bearing assembly, ballast, casting, step soldering, and radiation shielding.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.americanelements.com/nickel-manganese-alloy" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.americanelements.com/nickel-manganese-alloy" rel="nofollow">https://www.americanelements.com/nickel-manganese-alloy</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Who cares about merely extracting the silver from a perfectly, or at least easily usable/tailorable industrial/mil grade alloy?</p><p><br /></p><p>Ya reckon that was part of the plan just in case they had to be melted in the event the war went on longer than hoped? I do.</p><p><br /></p><p>Some might complain about extracting stainless from 2205&#039;s other pesky metals if our coins were made of them for no seeming rational reason at all. Or maybe 17-7 with its pesky carbon and such.</p><p><br /></p><p>Plenty of metals/elements on this planet are much more expensive than silver or gold, even if they were priced as shown today on the debt clock.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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