Why did a small piece of tungsten sand become an extremely important defense material for the Third Reich?
That’s because the biggest characteristic of tungsten metal is its high melting point. Its melting point is 3,400°C, so it is called a high-melting-point metal. Tungsten has high hardness, heavy specific gravity, tough properties, can be rolled into thin sheets or drawn into filaments, and has good electrical conductivity.
Good. The main uses of tungsten are: alloys with lead, tantalum, chromium, and diamond can be used to make various cemented carbide materials, which are used for geological drilling and mining drill bits, armor-piercing projectiles, metal cutting tools, aircraft engines and wear-resistant parts.
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To put it simply, tungsten can be used to make tools for making weapons, and can also be used to make gun barrels, shells, and aircraft. Is such a thing a good thing? It must be!
China is very lucky. In this era, its proven reserves of tungsten sand alone account for more than 60% of the world's total, definitely ranking first in the world.
In fact, in the future, as more and more tungsten deposits are discovered on the earth, China still accounts for 50% of global reserves, and one country covers the world.
It has to be said that the ancestors of the Chinese people knew how to choose a place and chose a good place for their descendants. Even if they ran out of money, they could dig some rocks from the ground and exchange them with foreigners for money.
In contrast, the short-legged residents of the small island country east of China are miserable. The place chosen by their ancestors has nothing but volcanoes. Although their ancestors most likely came from mainland China
Drifting past in a small boat.
Otherwise, they have been deliberately staring at the fertile land of China and drooling! This is also human nature. Who allows you to fight among yourself every day, and the country is riddled with holes, but you can still dig things from the ground in exchange for money.
? It really makes people immerse themselves in development every day but they have to tighten their belts to live a life. It makes the little short-legged people look hot!
If you have wealth but do not have the ability to protect it, you will be beaten if you fall behind. This is an unbreakable truth.
But what makes Liu Lang unhappy is that tungsten sand is such an awesome thing. Both the Third Reich and the Western powers obviously want it desperately, so they just grab it openly, but the price is set at an extremely low price. One ton is only enough.
Just twenty tons of tungsten sand, the price is only a pitiful one thousand two hundred silver dollars. You know, in the future, the price of ordinary tungsten sand will be 160,000 yuan per ton. If it is black tungsten concentrate, the price will be even higher.
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If converted according to the purchasing power of silver and yuan, the international market price of tungsten ore that has been liberalized in the future will be five times higher than it is now, not to mention that this is still before the war, when countries are beginning to desperately develop armaments.
Even if we don’t talk about the future, tungsten was widely used in the military during the World War I. Countries participating in the war desperately searched for tungsten sand. Before the war, the price of one unit of tungsten sand was only 8 US dollars, which was converted into silver dollars.
It was about 20 silver dollars, but it suddenly jumped to 100 US dollars per unit, a full increase of 12 times. The price per ton was as high as 4,800 US dollars, which was just over 10,000 dollars!
But now that there is no war, the price of tungsten ore has been lowered to less than 500 US dollars by these vampires. Moreover, countries like the Third Reich often do not use cash for foreign exchange, but exchange ordnance with the Chinese government.
Invisibly, I made a huge profit again.
Therefore, Liu Tuanzuo, who understood all this, believed that China had suffered a huge loss.
Dute's mother is about to go to war. How can a good thing like tungsten sand be sold to these yellow hairs like cabbage? She must be sold like Ganoderma lucidum, especially to those who have cherished the idea since their youth.
Liu Lang believed that no matter how expensive it was, he would have to bite his back teeth to buy the mustache that defeated all powerful countries and allowed the German nation to rise again.
In particular, Huashang Group will also start to use tungsten ore and foreign hair seeds to do business. This method of turning cabbage into Ganoderma lucidum must be used.
When the Huashang Group's tungsten mine was still on its way to Shanghai, Huang Jiqing, who had already soared into the domestic geological community due to the discovery of oil and was known as the number one rising star in the Chinese geological community, published an article in Shanghai's most famous declaration
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The title of the article is called "Theory of War Resources". The content of the article is to describe the importance of tungsten, antimony, tin, iron and other special metal minerals to war. It mainly illustrates a view that ambition militarism in order to obtain more
He launched the war with more resources and criticized these ambitious militarists for putting aside the precious lives of ordinary people for their own selfish interests.
Anyone with a discerning eye will know at a glance that this geological rookie with a strong patriotic sentiment is targeting the Japanese who have been invading and encroaching on China. Apart from them, there is no other country that now occupies the three northeastern provinces of China. They are digging coal everywhere with a small shovel all over the world.
Looking for iron.
Many people applauded the geologists and took a look at Master Huang's explanation of the importance of tungsten sand, a special metal mineral, to national defense. Only then did they realize that tungsten sand is so awesome. It can make hard alloy cutting tools.
We make cannon barrels and cannon shells, and we in China still have a lot of them. These are good things left by our ancestors, and we must not let the damn Japanese snatch them away.
That's right, the Chinese, a nation with Confucian culture and loyalty to the emperor and filial piety as its core ideas that have been passed down for thousands of years, will regard everything on the ground and underground as precious wealth left by their ancestors. If anything is damaged, it would be an apology.
The ancestors who lived on this land. Although there are many such unscrupulous descendants, it cannot be denied that most Chinese people think so.
Of course, this is just a by-product. People are more concerned about Master Huang's theory of war resources, which once again improved their understanding of national resources.
The newspapers published Master Huang's sudden remarks for three days. In fact, it did not cause much trouble. In the eyes of most people, this was just a rising star in geology who wanted to attract the government's attention to resources and continue to increase its focus on mineral resources.
The investment is just a call for geologists to continue to search for more mineral resources for the country.
This is what the arrogant Western consuls think too. Even if the poor Chinese realize the value of mineral resources, what if they are industrially backward and need to import a large amount of industrial equipment and finished products, which they have the control and pricing power to do?
Doesn’t the power still lie with you?
But immediately afterwards, Shanghai Declaration published articles by a professor from the Department of Geology of Huaqing University, once again clarifying the important role of tungsten, a heavy metal, in national defense, and calling on the government to increase the protection of tungsten mineral resources and to purchase and export them in a unified manner.
Increase efforts to combat smuggling.
This is not a fabrication by professors. Tungsten sand is in short supply in the international market. Companies that deal in tungsten sand will pay heavy taxes to the government. In order to avoid heavy taxes, tungsten sand smuggling has been banned in China, especially in Fujian and Guangdong provinces.
The hardest hit area. The reason is very simple. Tungsten sand can be easily transported out of the two provinces with vast coastlines.
How rampant is tungsten sand smuggling under the rule of the government?
Let’s talk about the common people first.
Hiding tungsten sand in moso bamboo and tying it into bamboo rafts is just a trail down the river to Guangzhou. What is incredible is that some people would feed the food mixed with tungsten sand to chickens, ducks, pigs and sheep, and then transport it to Guangdong Province.
Slaughtering, anyway, has an endless supply of various techniques, making it difficult to guard against.
Let’s talk about the major warlords. They are armed escorts, and they smuggle tungsten sand in the name of transporting military supplies. Otherwise, how can Mr. Chen, who is entrenched in Guangdong, have such a strong army that he can even equip an airplane? What role does tungsten sand play in this?
But there are quite a few.
Even the Red Army has taken advantage of tungsten sand to some extent. Gannan is a major producer of tungsten sand, and Mr. Chen is the biggest customer.
Following the voices of several geological authorities in Peiping, several heavyweights in the geological field from the National Resources Commission also published articles on the role of minerals in the country.
For a time, the word "minerals" almost occupied the headlines of Shen Shen, who always likes to comment on current affairs.
Among them, the word tungsten sand is mentioned most frequently.