Guess the material game!

[JulesMaximus]

I was holding a block of material earlier today that was about 12" long x 6" wide x 3" tall and it was worth almost $12,000.

Can anyone guess what it was?

Update: Nobody got it. It was a block of Vespel SP-1.

I was doing cost estimates for manufacturing certain assemblies out of this material and was marveling at how freaking expensive this stuff is.

 

[rivan]

Jello made from ground unicorn horn?

 

[Possessed Freak]

Dollar bills.

 

[OCGuy]

Your silver dildo?

 

[moshquerade]

Gold Member's gold member?

 

[Aharami]

Ron Jeremy's penis?

 

[DominionSeraph]

circuit board

 

[Joseph F]

Big-ass bar of nickel?

 

[davmat787]

How much did it weigh?

 

[OCGuy]

So who was right? Or are you going to syringer us?

 

[BigFatCow]

natural or man-made?

 

[Fenixgoon]

Big-ass bar of nickel?

negative. nickel's density is close to steel, and about the same price as high-grade aerospace steel. that dimensions would only net you like...$2k worth of nickel, if that.

my guess is some sort of precious metal, but eh, i work in a materials lab, so we have tons of crap come through.

 

[Possessed Freak]

Wait wait... has HP switched to some solid based ink for their printers? $12k seems low though, maybe $12mil.

 

[herm0016]

titanium? or carbide?

single crystal laser grade optic material??

 

[OCGuy]

ban op for leaving us hanging.

 

[rasczak]

a painting

 

[Schadenfreude]

Crack cocaine?

 

[ElFenix]

space shuttle heat shield tile?

 

[arcenite]

wafer

 

[Joseph F]

@OP Hit-and-run post much?

negative. nickel's density is close to steel, and about the same price as high-grade aerospace steel. that dimensions would only net you like...$2k worth of nickel, if that.

my guess is some sort of precious metal, but eh, i work in a materials lab, so we have tons of crap come through.

Ah, just re-read OP's post... I thought he said 12 feet long. xD
Now, my best guess is palladium.

 

[nonameo]

if you convert to something like zimbabwe dollars, maybe a submarine sandwich?

 

[Schadenfreude]

Damn, we've been Syringer'd

 

[Locut0s]

Aerogell?

 

[zerocool84]

Silicon

 

[MotF Bane]

Optical glass?