[mminer237]

It's not the heaviest thing in the world, but it's probably the heaviest thing a person could buy a practical cube of. The main metals heavier than lead are gold, iridium, mercury, platinum, tungsten, and uranium.

Uranium is a comparable price and density to tungsten, but buying iridium is gonna be at least 50x the price for something 10% denser.

[idiotsecant]

Uranium at it's elemental density is a comparable price to tungsten??

[laverya]

Yeah, it's part of what makes it so fantastic as armor piercing ammunition. And tank armor.

[laverya]

6 hours later, I'm an idiot who read density instead of price.

Funny thing is, while Depleted Uranium is about the same density as tungsten, it's also a fair bit cheaper (for major nuclear governments) because it's an otherwise nearly useless byproduct of the uranium enrichment process, and there's around a million tons of it sitting in storage worldwide.