. Canada's metals; a lecture delivered at the Toronto meeting of the British association for the advancement of science, August 20, 1897 . Fig. 8.—Splash produced on hard armour plate by projectile (plan).. Pn- 9-Another splash produced by projectile on armour plate (plan). [ To /ace page 35. CANADAS METALS 35 the other hand, the maker of the plate hopes toshatter the projectile. If the former wins, and theplate is wholly or partially penetrated, a splash willoften be the result, and allowing for the differencebetween the flow of a solid and the flow of a liquid,the splash of the solid steel s
. Canada's metals; a lecture delivered at the Toronto meeting of the British association for the advancement of science, August 20, 1897 . Fig. 8.—Splash produced on hard armour plate by projectile (plan).. Pn- 9-Another splash produced by projectile on armour plate (plan). [ To /ace page 35. CANADAS METALS 35 the other hand, the maker of the plate hopes toshatter the projectile. If the former wins, and theplate is wholly or partially penetrated, a splash willoften be the result, and allowing for the differencebetween the flow of a solid and the flow of a liquid,the splash of the solid steel strangely resemblesthe splash of the fluid gold. That this is the caseyou will see from photographs of splashes ofarmour plates for which I am indebted to SirW. Anderson, , Director-General of Ord-nance Factories, and to Lieutenant-Colonel C. FHadden, , Chief Inspector, Royal 7 shows a case in which a steel projectile,weighing 6 lbs. with a charge of 7f ozs. of cordite,was fired with a muzzle velocity of 1,756 feet persecond, against armour plate of rolled mild steel30 inches thick, and it produced in the go^oo^hof a second this beautiful splash of the steel platewhich seemed s
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