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Why would they take a head made of their supermetal, and then jam it onto a crude wooden handle?
You forget that wood made great handles until the Fall
TM, after which mutations made wood into a less than perfect tool making material.
But in all seriousness, Percy has hit the nail on the head. In all research your findings and materials must be available to ANYONE for analysis. I have personally sent plasmids, bacterial strains, etc. to other labs that wanted to check or duplicate the work done in my lab. Baugh's reluctance to allow his hammer to be analyzed is perhaps the most telling clue.
A question for Purple. Do you know if chlorine is a common additive in metallurgy? Think you could sneak in a hammer into the lab and check the composition and possibly even the "bubble" content?