Aluminium
Anon hates aluminum
Submitted 11 months ago by RmDebArc_5@sh.itjust.works to greentext@sh.itjust.works
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slurpyslop@kbin.social 11 months ago
very clearly the best metal is mercury because it's the only one you can drink at room temperature
FaceDeer@fedia.io 11 months ago
Gallium wants a word.
slurpyslop@kbin.social 11 months ago
you need your hvac serviced if your room is 85F
UNCOMFORTABLE
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Gallium is like M&M’s.
Melts in your mouth, not in your hands.
bi_tux@lemmy.world 11 months ago
but you can eat potassium at room temperature
slurpyslop@kbin.social 11 months ago
big pop rock
Mango@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Well I wanna drink a cold metal.
FatTony@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Really? No one 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 11 months ago
Tin will devour itself anyway
lemonmelon@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Only because it knows tungsten is out there lurking. Waiting. Hunting.
iiGxC@slrpnk.net 11 months ago
Highly recommend getting a tungsten cube. The density is surprising
recklessengagement@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Tungsten gang represent
i_love_FFT@lemmy.ml 11 months ago
I’m partial to titanium and nickel-chrome alloys. There’s a reason they’re named “super alloys”!
FellowEnt@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
More of an Aluminium/Magnesium or Iron/Titanium alloy guy myself but you do you!
SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I only fly in airplanes made of 100% American steel.
JayDee@lemmy.ml 11 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 11 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.
repungnant_canary@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Yeah, and it’s expensive because it’s …well, expensive. It’s not any less abundant than some other metals or more difficult to extract. We just decided it’s gonna be expensive
PenisWenisGenius@lemmynsfw.com 11 months ago
There’s also silver which is an off brand ripoff version of gold. It kind of sucks because it discolors and turns purple.
hellfire103@lemmy.ca 11 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 11 months ago
Highly conductive
Until it oxidizes, and silver is a complete whore for oxygen.
IzzyScissor@lemmy.world 11 months ago
- Turns you blue if you consume it daily
BastingChemina@slrpnk.net 11 months ago
Great if you want to cosplay a smurf
zik@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It’s a great heat conductor roo
magnetosphere@fedia.io 11 months ago
Iron and bronze have entire ages of history named after them, so…
Assman@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
This idiot forgot the beer can age
alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 11 months ago
Beer cans have a plastic liner, otherwise the beer would eat through the aluminum.
Sanctus@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Yeah but the iron age is more the iron alloy age, it just doesn’t sound as cool.
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Aluminum “rusts” as well. White rust. Aluminum oxide.
SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
in fact, it rusts so fast, that it’s pretty much impossible to get a “clean” aluminium surface while oxygen is around
Maalus@lemmy.world 11 months ago
They had to invent an entirely new style of welding to weld it correctly because it rusts so much you can’t even melt it for welding reliably.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 11 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 11 months ago
And if you combine that with magnesium powder, you can make a historic doping agent to coat your zeppelin with!
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Illuminostro@lemmy.world 11 months ago
[deleted]boatsnhos931@lemmy.world 11 months ago
YOU ARE WRONG COLONEL SANDERS, MOMMA’S RIGHT
Liz@midwest.social 11 months ago
Yeah but like, in order to get significant amounts of it you gotta be in a relatively harsh environment.
Olhonestjim@lemmy.world 11 months ago
You get a lot of it at sea. Not supposed to polish it off though, because the aluminum oxide acts as a barrier to further corrosion, whereas iron oxide flakes and continually exposes fresh surface.
the_third@feddit.de 11 months ago
Under a car and in contact with iron is enough. I love my aluminum body cars but man, you need to be careful selecting fasteners.
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Dunno how harsh a warehouse is. We used to get oxidized stuff for our presses a lot
PenisWenisGenius@lemmynsfw.com 11 months ago
You should sneak into his garage in the night and sabotage all his aluminum ingots by hitting them with a hammer until they crack. When he tries to sneak into your garage to get revenge, he’ll wear out his hammer because your iron ingots are superior. That’ll show him.
JackbyDev@programming.dev 11 months ago
Wouldn’t they just bend? Aluminum is very flexible.
PenisWenisGenius@lemmynsfw.com 11 months ago
They’d bend a little but they would eventually crack. Aluminum ingots don’t bend like aluminum foil does.
Nomecks@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Carbon is the best metal, ask any astrophysicist.
Gullible@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
It’s been proven without a doubt that diamonds are the hardest metal of all time, if not just the hardest metal known to man.
JayDee@lemmy.ml 11 months ago
Only for the best submarines.
bi_tux@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I wanted to bring that joke );
Olhonestjim@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Most chemists too, at least the good ones.
usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
I’m a fan of hydrogen
Olhonestjim@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Fuck you, titanium rules.
slurpinderpin@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Everyone knows Titanium is the best metal, fuck these nerds
You999@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Titanium is great up until you try to machine it. Now my boy platinum is where it’s at.
OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 11 months ago
Titanium’s fire, yo
echodot@feddit.uk 11 months ago
Gallium or bust.
It’s not really useful but it looks cool and it’ll eat away at both if their metals.
mojo_raisin@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It’s not really useful
I feel like I hear about it all the time in advanced tech like batteries and semi-conductors.
piccolo@ani.social 11 months ago
Without gallium blue leds wouldn’t exist. It’s also very useful in other semiconductors.
alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 11 months ago
Also LEDs and screens.
KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
i like uranium better.
Cursed as fuck metal.
gmtom@lemmy.world 11 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.🤡
Tabula_stercore@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Sad to see so low level of intellect in the comment section; can’t even spell the element aluminium correctly
Blackout@kbin.run 11 months ago
Aluminum is great, until you want to machine it. Then it's a gummy piece of shit.
Senseless@feddit.de 11 months ago
Still the most normal conversation on 4chan
user224@lemmy.sdf.org 11 months ago
Why is nobody here for-copper?
iiGxC@slrpnk.net 11 months ago
www.primaryconnections.org.au/…/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
nexguy@lemmy.world 11 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.
The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I would listen to this person’s extremely specific rant.
randint@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 11 months ago
Aluminum has always been my favorite element and metal. I feel the urge to punch this anon in his aluminum-hating fuckface.
Steamymoomilk@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Counterpoint for iron, stainless steal. Or 1014L (the L stands for lead) its .14% carbon and the lead makes it more dense and resistent to rust
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Iron is dogshit compared to aluminum
bi_tux@lemmy.world 11 months ago
brass is tha best change my mind
leftzero@lemmynsfw.com 11 months ago
Everyone knows magnesium is the superior metal.
Got_Bent@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I thought Ozzy was the best metal
NegativeLookBehind@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Uranium gang rise up 🍄🟫
dadGPT@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Al i want yo know is how is it prnounced. Is the last i silent?
XTL@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
These two clearly don’t know about titanium.
Blackout@kbin.run 11 months ago
A metal as hard as my heart
Xanthrax@lemmy.world 11 months ago
And fractures just as easily
hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
Fucked so hard no one wants to work with it.
Fuck of tittyboi
Steel is the king
Dagnet@lemmy.world 11 months ago
That’s just spiced iron
Skanky@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Laughs in tungsten
BastingChemina@slrpnk.net 11 months ago
Steel is much stronger than titanium.
Titanium is a middle ground between steel and aluminum.
bi_tux@lemmy.world 11 months ago
steel is an alloy