Re: Titanium snails

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From: "Edward Lipsett" <translation@intercomltd.com>
> Personally, I would find these more likely than metallic Ti. And your
wasps
> could have a substance that works on the Ti content regardless (I have
no
> idea how reactive Ti itself is, however... Could collapse the whole
> argument!).

Another arguable material for the shell is a diamond coating. Hardest
material known to man. As it is pure carbon, it just might be plausible
as a
material deposited by an organic process.

The wasps would need diamond-tipped teeth or some solvent to get at the
snails.

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