I''m wondering if anyone can comment on the safety of a Tungsten band.
My fiancé and I went ring shopping the other day, and the ring that I like above all else is a tungsten (TrewTungsten, actually) with some inlaid platinum. The sales agent cautioned us about the difficulty of cutting tungsten, and that it could be dangerous. (i.e., you jam your finger while playing basketball, your finger swells, but the hospital can''t cut off the ring since it''s too hard.)
I''m not sure that I believe this. I''m an engineer in a past life, and I remember tungsten being hard, but brittle - unlike, say, titanium. So my questions are...
* is a tungsten ring really more dangerous than, say, a platinum band? (Note, the only non-traditional metal i''m considering is tungsten... i.e., _not_ titanium)
* I''ve seen websites that describe how tungsten rings can be _cracked_ - like ceramic. This seems easier to me than cutting through metal ... plus, i''ve heard of tungsten rings cracking. So this would contradict the earler advice.
Has anyone else researched tungsten, and can offer any opinions?
thanks in advance!
My fiancé and I went ring shopping the other day, and the ring that I like above all else is a tungsten (TrewTungsten, actually) with some inlaid platinum. The sales agent cautioned us about the difficulty of cutting tungsten, and that it could be dangerous. (i.e., you jam your finger while playing basketball, your finger swells, but the hospital can''t cut off the ring since it''s too hard.)
I''m not sure that I believe this. I''m an engineer in a past life, and I remember tungsten being hard, but brittle - unlike, say, titanium. So my questions are...
* is a tungsten ring really more dangerous than, say, a platinum band? (Note, the only non-traditional metal i''m considering is tungsten... i.e., _not_ titanium)
* I''ve seen websites that describe how tungsten rings can be _cracked_ - like ceramic. This seems easier to me than cutting through metal ... plus, i''ve heard of tungsten rings cracking. So this would contradict the earler advice.
Has anyone else researched tungsten, and can offer any opinions?
thanks in advance!
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