Originally posted by Darth Vegas
The reason why Tony doesn't make a suit out of pure adamantium is because not only is it extremely expensive, but it is also a very dense metal, thus very heavy.The amount of energy required to power a suit made of pure adamantium would be extremely high, not only just for movement, but for flying as well. His armor would probably run out of energy very quickly while operating the most basic of tasks.
Ah I see. But what about a thin adamantium coating like Wolverine's skeleton as others here have mentioned? People like punisher and daredevil have been able to life wolverine up before so a thin coating can't make tony's armour too heavy.
Well... I think Wolverine weighs around 300lbs.... given his build i'd think he should weigh about 200lbs at the most..... so it seems adamantium is pretty heavy but nothing that the Iron Man armour couldn't handle easily enough.
Ok... Look what I found in a handbook, Apparently he weighs 195lbs without adamantium and 300lbs with it:
That should give a basic idea of how much it might weigh if coated over IM's armour..... probably wouldn't make much difference at all.... it's just much harder to work with
Originally posted by Scoobless
Well... I think Wolverine weighs around 300lbs.... given his build i'd think he should weigh about 200lbs at the most..... so it seems adamantium is pretty heavy but nothing that the Iron Man armour couldn't handle easily enough.Ok... Look what I found in a handbook, Apparently he weighs 195lbs without adamantium and 300lbs with it:
That should give a basic idea of how much it might weigh if coated over IM's armour..... probably wouldn't make much difference at all.... it's just much harder to work with
However thats adamantium beta, which is not the same as normal adamatium.
The reason some one like stark does not uses adamatium is due to the fact no one really knows how to create it out side the much cheaper and far less durable 2ndry adamatium.
