| From: | shadowrn@*********.com (Lone Eagle) |
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| Subject: | Glassify? |
| Date: | Mon Mar 4 04:15:01 2002 |
>I'm working on a spell very similar to petrify, only it turns the target
>into glass and I wanted to get ideas about how much should the barrier
>rating be.(I don't think that Body+successes will be apprpriate since glass
>isn't as strong as limestone AFAIK). Help anybody?
Glass should be far stronger than Limestone. However it depends on how you
treat it and how it is loaded. eg glass can be made which, under a tensile
load (pulling at both ends) is at least as strong as steel. The security
glass which some banks and art galleries use (instead of polycarbonate) will
sustain a far greater impact than a lump of limestone. Even the glass in
your windows at home is considerably stronger than limestone of a similar
thickness and area. Glass made for intense low temperature work on the other
hand (which replaces steel as it becomes brittle in extreme cold) is
incredibly fragile at room temerature. More importantly however glass tends
to shatter under high impact loading while limestone will chip and crack.
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