Mask Weight

[MajorDave]

Thanks SDS for the science lesson. I remember Molybdenum as being on the periodic table of elements from my HS/College science class days but I have never seen or dealt with it. I wonder how they got the shortened name as noted above from the original element name? Anyway, back to the point. I think it is a pretty good mask. It is my number one and I only keep the Honig's as a back up.

[SanDiegoSteve]

I think that they figured that Chrome Moly would be associated with car wheels so they used a different shortened name.......Moliben. Who'd a guessed?

Or I could be totally off base here (and subject to being tagged out) and maybe Moliben is a new alloy of which I am unfamiliar. Someone with superior intellect, such as JRutledge perhaps , may have the definitive answer.

[briancurtin]

It is also known as 4130 steel, and is composed of 0.28 to 0.33% carbon, 0.4 to 0.6% manganese, 0.8 to 1.1% chromium, 0.15 to 0.25% molybdenum, 0.04% phosphorus, 0.04% sulfur, and 0.2 to 0.35% silicon, in addition to iron.

ok im not that smart, i took it from here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrome_moly

[SanDiegoSteve]

You could have wowed us all if you hadn't copped to looking it up!!!!

[briancurtin]

i had to cite my source haha.
one week after graduation and i used one thing i learned from college. im not sure if thats a good start or not.