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Anon hates aluminum (sh.itjust.works)
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[-] XTL@sopuli.xyz 108 points 6 months ago

These two clearly don't know about titanium.

[-] Blackout@kbin.run 30 points 6 months ago

A metal as hard as my heart

[-] Xanthrax@lemmy.world 45 points 6 months ago

And fractures just as easily

[-] FederatedSaint@lemmy.world 21 points 6 months ago
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[-] liam070@sopuli.xyz 78 points 6 months ago
[-] slurpyslop@kbin.social 56 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

very clearly the best metal is mercury because it's the only one you can drink at room temperature

[-] FaceDeer@fedia.io 36 points 6 months ago
[-] slurpyslop@kbin.social 27 points 6 months ago

you need your hvac serviced if your room is 85F

UNCOMFORTABLE

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[-] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 17 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Eating Gallium is like eating M&M's.

Melts in your mouth, not in your hands.

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[-] FatTony@lemmy.world 51 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Really? No one's on the Tungsten train over here? Highest melting point of all metals. It's also called 'the devourer of tin'. Now that's metal for ya.

[-] YerbaYerba@lemm.ee 12 points 6 months ago

Tin will devour itself anyway

[-] lemonmelon@lemmy.world 20 points 6 months ago

Only because it knows tungsten is out there lurking. Waiting. Hunting.

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[-] SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 45 points 6 months ago

I only fly in airplanes made of 100% American steel.

[-] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 36 points 6 months ago

Hey, Elon.

Got bored with twitter?

[-] SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 28 points 6 months ago
[-] FederatedSaint@lemmy.world 30 points 6 months ago

I still cringe at the "posted on x, formerly known as Twitter" wording everyone feels the need to use, even almost a year later.

I think we should all just call it Twitter and ignore the name change.

[-] SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 25 points 6 months ago

We should all just ignore the platform until doesn’t matter what it’s called anymore.

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[-] JayDee@lemmy.ml 41 points 6 months ago

The true tossup is actually mercury or lead.

Both insanely useful metals with a massive variety of helpful traits.

And the universe made them poisonous to us as a big "FUCK YOU".

[-] Liz@midwest.social 13 points 6 months ago

It's very annoying that gold is so expensive. Much less toxic and still has loads of great properties. It's just, you know, expensive.

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[-] hellfire103@lemmy.ca 39 points 6 months ago

Amateurs! It's gotta be silver!

  • Looks nice in jewellery
  • Antimicrobial properties
  • An essential component of camera film
  • Highly conductive (e.g. used for electrodes and thermal paste in computing)
  • Catalyst in many chemical reactions
  • Used to make mirrors
  • A critical component of solar panels
  • The only metal capable of incapacitating werewolves, and also somewhat effective against vampires
[-] rtxn@lemmy.world 36 points 6 months ago

Highly conductive

Until it oxidizes, and silver is a complete whore for oxygen.

[-] remotedev@lemmy.ca 37 points 6 months ago
[-] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 26 points 6 months ago

I would suck AND blow so hard for some oxygen right now.

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[-] IzzyScissor@lemmy.world 15 points 6 months ago
  • Turns you blue if you consume it daily
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[-] magnetosphere@fedia.io 32 points 6 months ago

Iron and bronze have entire ages of history named after them, so…

[-] Assman@sh.itjust.works 19 points 6 months ago

This idiot forgot the beer can age

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[-] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 31 points 6 months ago

Aluminum "rusts" as well. White rust. Aluminum oxide.

[-] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 29 points 6 months ago

in fact, it rusts so fast, that it's pretty much impossible to get a "clean" aluminium surface while oxygen is around

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[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 14 points 6 months ago

You also need both iron oxide and aluminum powder to make thermite. It's amazing what metal can achieve when it works together.

[-] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 14 points 6 months ago

And if you combine that with magnesium powder, you can make a historic doping agent to coat your zeppelin with!

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[-] Nomecks@lemmy.ca 26 points 6 months ago

Carbon is the best metal, ask any astrophysicist.

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[-] Olhonestjim@lemmy.world 23 points 6 months ago
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[-] gmtom@lemmy.world 17 points 6 months ago

God damn rustcucks can't deal with their own inferiority. When's the last time you even used pure iron for something instead of alloy, you fucking loser.🤡

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[-] echodot@feddit.uk 17 points 6 months ago

Gallium or bust.

It's not really useful but it looks cool and it'll eat away at both if their metals.

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[-] Blackout@kbin.run 16 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Aluminum is great, until you want to machine it. Then it's a gummy piece of shit.

[-] JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 17 points 6 months ago

As far as machining goes, AL is easy mode compared to high carbon steels, tool steels, and inconels.

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[-] Senseless@feddit.de 16 points 6 months ago

Still the most normal conversation on 4chan

[-] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 6 months ago

i like uranium better.

Cursed as fuck metal.

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[-] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 15 points 6 months ago

Why is nobody here for-copper?

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[-] Tabula_stercore@lemmy.world 14 points 6 months ago

Sad to see so low level of intellect in the comment section; can't even spell the element aluminium correctly

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[-] iiGxC@slrpnk.net 13 points 6 months ago

https://www.primaryconnections.org.au/themes/custom/connections/assets/SBR/data/Chem/sub/corrosion/corrosion.htm

aluminum actually corrodes quicker, but it oxidizes to a layer of aluminum oxide that seals out air and water, whereas iron has a permeable oxide that lets air and water get to the iron under the oxide. So in practice it doesn't rust nearly as fast as iron

[-] The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 12 points 6 months ago

I would listen to this person's extremely specific rant.

[-] nexguy@lemmy.world 12 points 6 months ago

Zinc is by FAR the best element. I also like Plutonium. It's just fun to say. Plutonium. How's your Plutonium? Good thank you.

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