Installed in that upper is a 5.56 NATO, 1 turn in 7-inch rifled, 4150 chrome-moly barrel with
Melonite finish.
The barrel and the slide have a
Melonite coating for corrosion resistance.
The Guts Most of the parts your hand touches on the TX22, including the manual safety lever, magazine release and takedown crossbar, are stainless steel given a
Melonite finish.
Instead of traditional blueing, new coatings such as duracoat, cerakote, and
melonite are the fashion.
Machined from barstock steel, fully heat-treated and finished in black
Melonite, each features a 30 lines-per-inch checkered face.
FNC is known by a number of proprietary names, such as Tufftride, Tenifer,
Melonite, Nu-Tride, and QPQ (Quench Polish Quench).
The Saint is a direct-gas-impingement design and sports a 16-inch chrome moly vanadium barrel with a corrosion-resistant
Melonite finish inside and out.
SAVAGE * The MSR 10 Hunter features a premium 5-R rifled barrel and tough
Melonite QPQ finish.
The Summit is a minimalist wallet constructed with cold-rolled steel coated in a durable
melonite finish.
The barrel featured a black
melonite finish that had a semi-gloss appearance.
Their
melonite surface treatment improves wear and corrosion resistance for more positive alignment over the life of a mould.
These include 15 minerals containing gold and/or silver and 14 tellurides, among which are the lead telluride altaite, the mercury telluride coloradoite, and the nickel telluride
melonite. Other unusual minerals of note in those orebodies are the relatively rare vanadium oxides karelianite, nolanite, and schreyerite, as well as the vanadium mica roscoelite.