Post Reply - More Scans of The Green Finish On M1 Carbines

@ Quanjito, I am far from an expert on it but have a general background in many things. That said I find it very interesting that there is a hand held scanner that can due such things.

One of my hobbies is machining and I am sitting on a ton of mixed tool steels. It would be nice to know what there compositions are.

on the odd elements,

Rubidium

some of them are more costly than gold!

I am thinking they had nothing to do with the parkerizing, but you never know?

The ones listed are also used in pyrotechnics. So they may have sat under a expensive fireworks display or I wonder if they were used in the presence of military flairs to light the battlefield?

My interest in the first generation of night vision led to reading accounts of the night vision usage. The death of the gen zero stuff was that those running the battlefield preferred lighting up the night sky, even if it gave the enemy the same advantage of visibility.