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Subject: fuel rods element

im trying to remember what element fuel rod cannons shoot but its hard to remember. so im going to ask is it rods of uranium??

  • 11.27.2010 7:05 AM PDT

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Probably Plutonium. Or some retarded element that only The Covenant has discovered.

  • 11.27.2010 7:13 AM PDT

It does seem to have some sort of over exaggerated radioactive aura and judging by how they work it is most likely they are actual solid projectiles,and i guess they bounce

  • 11.27.2010 7:24 AM PDT

Bip. Bap. Bam.

Rods of fuel. Duh.

  • 11.27.2010 8:25 AM PDT

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Fuel gel?

  • 11.27.2010 8:28 AM PDT
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I always thought that they were solid slugs of fuel, and the Covenant decided to just cram a bunch of them in a gun because they were volatile

  • 11.27.2010 8:46 AM PDT

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It would actually be an element from the current periodic table - anything outside of it is too unstable to exist.

Anything radioactive. I'd guess some insane hybrid of all the Actinide Group elements.

  • 11.27.2010 9:03 AM PDT

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I'll bet it is
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The newest element with over 9000 molecules!

  • 11.27.2010 9:17 AM PDT

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I don't think it has ever been stated. I'm guessing that, seeing as how most people imagine Uranium as glowing green, that was probably what the artist who originally designed them was shooting for.

Also, lol @ people above who couldn't take five seconds to look up what a fuel rod is.

  • 11.27.2010 9:21 AM PDT

On hiding dead bodies:
Posted by: Psuedo
Posted by: teh Chaz
Inside another dead body. It's the last place they'll look
A corpse within a corpse.
CORPSEPTION.
Win.

Posted by: Cowgoesmoo
I'll bet it is
ununununsspeuumttium

The newest element with over 9000 molecules!
Do you mean 9000 nucleons? If you do, you're still quite very wrong.

  • 11.27.2010 9:21 AM PDT

Posted by: Gruntpacolypto
I always thought that they were solid slugs of fuel, and the Covenant decided to just cram a bunch of them in a gun because they were volatile

Sounds about right

Grunt 1: Hey these things explode! Maybe we should throw them at the heretics!

Grunt 2: But then they could pick them up and throw them back at us!

Grunt 1: But if we shoot them at them it'll blow up in their face

Grunt 2: Genius,pure genius

  • 11.27.2010 9:46 AM PDT

On hiding dead bodies:
Posted by: Psuedo
Posted by: teh Chaz
Inside another dead body. It's the last place they'll look
A corpse within a corpse.
CORPSEPTION.
Win.

Thought - Covenant shipboard reactors use Tritium gas.

Presumably one of these rods is 'spent' tritium harvested from a reactor, and then shunted into a rigid container.
Given how the Covenant love their magnetic fields, I imagine the FRG is a weak Railgun, utilising the FRHR in firing projectiles at low/medium velocity.

  • 11.27.2010 9:50 AM PDT

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It could be something from the island of stability that is theorised to exist around the 114-126 protons. That in perspective, Uranium has 90 protons and is the highest proton count to occur in nature for a nucleus.

More.

  • 11.27.2010 10:23 AM PDT

Posted by: Spartan999
I don't think it has ever been stated. I'm guessing that, seeing as how most people imagine Uranium as glowing green, that was probably what the artist who originally designed them was shooting for.

Also, lol @ people above who couldn't take five seconds to look up what a fuel rod is.


It was nicknamed the fuel rod gun because it was reminiscent of cartoony fuel rods, it isn't actually a uranium fuel rod.

  • 11.27.2010 11:01 AM PDT

It could possibly be solidified (or liquified since the projectiles seem to be in canisters in Halo Reach) Chlorine that's heated up very quickly into plasma when it's being shot. It's melting point is about -150F, boiling point of about 29F and critical point of about 290F.

Chlorine is also yellow green in color and is incendiary. Though I'd imagine people close to the impact but didn't actually get blown up would have had side effects from when the plasma cooled to a gas which I havn't heard of in the Halo series.

  • 11.27.2010 11:20 AM PDT

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Posted by: Spartan999
I don't think it has ever been stated. I'm guessing that, seeing as how most people imagine Uranium as glowing green, that was probably what the artist who originally designed them was shooting for.

Also, lol @ people above who couldn't take five seconds to look up what a fuel rod is.


It was nicknamed the fuel rod gun because it was reminiscent of cartoony fuel rods, it isn't actually a uranium fuel rod.
You have proof of this?

  • 11.27.2010 11:25 AM PDT

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Posted by: Spartan999
I don't think it has ever been stated. I'm guessing that, seeing as how most people imagine Uranium as glowing green, that was probably what the artist who originally designed them was shooting for.

Also, lol @ people above who couldn't take five seconds to look up what a fuel rod is.


It was nicknamed the fuel rod gun because it was reminiscent of cartoony fuel rods, it isn't actually a uranium fuel rod.
You have proof of this?

Because uranium doesn't glow green. Derp.

It would make slightly more sense for the rods to glow blue, however.



  • 11.27.2010 11:46 AM PDT

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Posted by: DuskSonicNinja
Because uranium doesn't glow green. Derp.

It would make slightly more sense for the rods to glow blue, however.
I never said Uranium was green. I said that is the way most people imagine it, most likely the artist who designed the Fuel Rod Gun as well. How does that prove that the Fuel Rod Guns don't actually fire fuel rods?

  • 11.27.2010 12:47 PM PDT

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  • 11.27.2010 1:00 PM PDT

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  • 11.27.2010 1:12 PM PDT

I thought that they were really incendiary gel, not actual fuel rods...

  • 11.27.2010 1:32 PM PDT

It seems to me to be some kind of incendiary, plastic like, radioctive gel, which is then contained in capsules and only detonates when in large enough quantities( as a carbine shell does not explode ) or when hitting a pre-programmed enemy target.

  • 11.27.2010 3:21 PM PDT

Posted by: Spartan999
Posted by: the n00b pwner
Posted by: Spartan999
I don't think it has ever been stated. I'm guessing that, seeing as how most people imagine Uranium as glowing green, that was probably what the artist who originally designed them was shooting for.

Also, lol @ people above who couldn't take five seconds to look up what a fuel rod is.


It was nicknamed the fuel rod gun because it was reminiscent of cartoony fuel rods, it isn't actually a uranium fuel rod.
You have proof of this?



Yes. Second UNSC remark.

[Edited on 11.27.2010 4:04 PM PST]

  • 11.27.2010 4:03 PM PDT

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theyre containers loaded with explosive gel that burns green and gives off radiation.

  • 11.27.2010 4:35 PM PDT

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Posted by: Spartan999
Posted by: the n00b pwner
Posted by: Spartan999
I don't think it has ever been stated. I'm guessing that, seeing as how most people imagine Uranium as glowing green, that was probably what the artist who originally designed them was shooting for.

Also, lol @ people above who couldn't take five seconds to look up what a fuel rod is.


It was nicknamed the fuel rod gun because it was reminiscent of cartoony fuel rods, it isn't actually a uranium fuel rod.
You have proof of this?

Because uranium doesn't glow green. Derp.

It would make slightly more sense for the rods to glow blue, however.





Kinda off topic, but sometimes uranium does have a greenish yellow color, depending on various factors. In the 1930's(maybe 40s and 50s)they made something called "uranium glass". It was glass serving plates and such made with some depleted uranium. It was also called "vasiline glass" becuase the uranium in it gave it a greenish yellowish tint.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_glass

  • 11.27.2010 4:38 PM PDT

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