Aluminium
Anon hates aluminum
Submitted 1 year ago by RmDebArc_5@sh.itjust.works to greentext@sh.itjust.works
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slurpyslop@kbin.social 1 year ago
very clearly the best metal is mercury because it's the only one you can drink at room temperature
FaceDeer@fedia.io 1 year ago
Gallium wants a word.
slurpyslop@kbin.social 1 year ago
you need your hvac serviced if your room is 85F
UNCOMFORTABLE
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Gallium is like M&M’s.
Melts in your mouth, not in your hands.
bi_tux@lemmy.world 1 year ago
but you can eat potassium at room temperature
slurpyslop@kbin.social 1 year ago
big pop rock
Mango@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Well I wanna drink a cold metal.
FatTony@lemmy.world 1 year 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 1 year ago
Tin will devour itself anyway
lemonmelon@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Only because it knows tungsten is out there lurking. Waiting. Hunting.
iiGxC@slrpnk.net 1 year ago
Highly recommend getting a tungsten cube. The density is surprising
recklessengagement@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Tungsten gang represent
i_love_FFT@lemmy.ml 1 year ago
I’m partial to titanium and nickel-chrome alloys. There’s a reason they’re named “super alloys”!
FellowEnt@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
More of an Aluminium/Magnesium or Iron/Titanium alloy guy myself but you do you!
SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I only fly in airplanes made of 100% American steel.
JayDee@lemmy.ml 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year ago
Highly conductive
Until it oxidizes, and silver is a complete whore for oxygen.
IzzyScissor@lemmy.world 1 year ago
- Turns you blue if you consume it daily
BastingChemina@slrpnk.net 1 year ago
Great if you want to cosplay a smurf
zik@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It’s a great heat conductor roo
magnetosphere@fedia.io 1 year ago
Iron and bronze have entire ages of history named after them, so…
Assman@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
This idiot forgot the beer can age
alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 1 year ago
Beer cans have a plastic liner, otherwise the beer would eat through the aluminum.
Sanctus@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Yeah but the iron age is more the iron alloy age, it just doesn’t sound as cool.
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Aluminum “rusts” as well. White rust. Aluminum oxide.
SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year ago
Illuminostro@lemmy.world 1 year ago
[deleted]boatsnhos931@lemmy.world 1 year ago
YOU ARE WRONG COLONEL SANDERS, MOMMA’S RIGHT
Liz@midwest.social 1 year ago
Yeah but like, in order to get significant amounts of it you gotta be in a relatively harsh environment.
Olhonestjim@lemmy.world 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year ago
Dunno how harsh a warehouse is. We used to get oxidized stuff for our presses a lot
PenisWenisGenius@lemmynsfw.com 1 year 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 1 year ago
Wouldn’t they just bend? Aluminum is very flexible.
PenisWenisGenius@lemmynsfw.com 1 year ago
They’d bend a little but they would eventually crack. Aluminum ingots don’t bend like aluminum foil does.
Nomecks@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Carbon is the best metal, ask any astrophysicist.
Gullible@sh.itjust.works 1 year 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 1 year ago
Only for the best submarines.
bi_tux@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I wanted to bring that joke );
Olhonestjim@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Most chemists too, at least the good ones.
usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
I’m a fan of hydrogen
Olhonestjim@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Fuck you, titanium rules.
slurpinderpin@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Everyone knows Titanium is the best metal, fuck these nerds
You999@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Titanium is great up until you try to machine it. Now my boy platinum is where it’s at.
OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 1 year ago
Titanium’s fire, yo
echodot@feddit.uk 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year ago
Without gallium blue leds wouldn’t exist. It’s also very useful in other semiconductors.
alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 1 year ago
Also LEDs and screens.
KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
i like uranium better.
Cursed as fuck metal.
gmtom@lemmy.world 1 year 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 1 year ago
Sad to see so low level of intellect in the comment section; can’t even spell the element aluminium correctly
Blackout@kbin.run 1 year ago
Aluminum is great, until you want to machine it. Then it's a gummy piece of shit.
Senseless@feddit.de 1 year ago
Still the most normal conversation on 4chan
user224@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
Why is nobody here for-copper?
iiGxC@slrpnk.net 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year ago
I would listen to this person’s extremely specific rant.
randint@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year ago
Iron is dogshit compared to aluminum
bi_tux@lemmy.world 1 year ago
brass is tha best change my mind
leftzero@lemmynsfw.com 1 year ago
Everyone knows magnesium is the superior metal.
Got_Bent@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I thought Ozzy was the best metal
NegativeLookBehind@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Uranium gang rise up 🍄🟫
dadGPT@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Al i want yo know is how is it prnounced. Is the last i silent?
XTL@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
These two clearly don’t know about titanium.
Blackout@kbin.run 1 year ago
A metal as hard as my heart
Xanthrax@lemmy.world 1 year ago
And fractures just as easily
hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
Fucked so hard no one wants to work with it.
Fuck of tittyboi
Steel is the king
Dagnet@lemmy.world 1 year ago
That’s just spiced iron
Skanky@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Laughs in tungsten
BastingChemina@slrpnk.net 1 year ago
Steel is much stronger than titanium.
Titanium is a middle ground between steel and aluminum.
bi_tux@lemmy.world 1 year ago
steel is an alloy