4 May 2024

Baakonite

From Sci Fi / Sci Fact, 5:00 am on 4 May 2024
Klingon Bat'leths at the booth of Khemorex Klinzhai at FedCon

Klingon Bat'leths at the booth of Khemorex Klinzhai at FedCon Photo: Maximilian Reininghaus. Cropped by Fallschirmjäger / CC BY (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0)

Head shot of Duncan McGillivray

Duncan McGillivray Photo: MacDiarmid Institute

Duncan McGillivrary, a Principal Investigator at the MacDiarmid Institute and Associate Professor in Chemical Sciences at the University of Auckland, discusses the metal Baakonite. It is described as a strong, reinforced metal used for traditional Klingon weaponry such as the bat'leth, in the Star Trek universe.

 

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