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by hakfoo 1191 days ago
I'd think the public palatability of lead products is one aspect. People don't worry as much about tungsten.

I was thinking weights to fit specific items. Model railway wagons, for example, need to be weighted and balanced to operate smoothly, but you have significant size constraints. I threw a bunch of tungsten weights inside a small locomotive to give it extra tractive effort.

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yeah but it turns out this is only 4 g/cc