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Mold it into the shape of your nose cone? Make a male model, make the female in plaster. Fill the new mold with lead, break the plaster off, unless you want to save it. You could even make the male out of wax, which will act as your releasing agent also, and then use the lost wax method of molding metal. Done in industry all the time for investment castings. Possible, and relatively practical, but a solid lead nose cone sounds like a oversize bullet and could come with it’s own set of hazards. I do not think I would recommend it.
edward
Which hits harder – a pound of lead or a pound of steel?
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If you include the kinetic energy once up to velocity, the lead will hit harder. Velocity and weight being the same, should be about the same, but we know the lead is more dense, so the energy stored will be greater, at least that is what I recall of my physics and kinetic energy vehicles.
edward
If a pound of lead and steel are going the same speed, the energy is the same. The lead will just take up a smaller volume. I guess you could stay potential energy density is higher.
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