Team K.a.L.M.

[Eventorizon]

Get a small piece and hit it with a hammer. If it deforms without breaking, it will be near HDPE, if it shatters its closer to LDPE and if it in between it may have some PET in it too... note: this is all coming from a handout I got in Materials for Designers at uni so its pretty vague :-P

[cavecrusher]

Hit it with a hammer.

very scientific :P

Then again, that's how a izod/charpy notch test works...

[leorcc]

very scientific :P

Then again, that's how a izod/charpy notch test works...

Large Hadron collider, bash 2 atoms together and see what happens.

[cavecrusher]

Large Hadron collider, bash 2 atoms together and see what happens.

3000 X 100 billion atoms, with a total energy of 300 MJ.

That's a very very big hammer...