Team aluminum all the way. A higher up where I work is obsessed with stainless steel, he gets these monstrous heavy duty tables made out of SS that hold objects 1/3 of their weight. Makes lab rearranging a nightmare lol.
Aluminum
Submitted 11 months ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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Kroxx@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Banichan@dormi.zone 11 months ago
STEEL IS AN ALLOY, YOU PHILISTINE
waigl@lemmy.world 11 months ago
The actual aluminium that people work with in actual real life are also alloys.
Wogi@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Aluminum is where it’s at, and where it is, is everywhere.
Your cans? Aluminum. Your car? Mostly aluminum. Old wiring, you better believe that’s aluminum. Your fucking phone screen is aluminum, sand paper is aluminum, half the birth stones are all aluminum let’s fucking goooo baybee
nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
Most cars are still steel. Source I work on cars in New England. So much rust, even on the ones with aluminum bodies, at least wherever it can touch a dissimilar metal and becomes a battery.
And crucially the important parts that keep it from exploding (cylinder liners) and save you in a crash (crumple and number cores) are almost all steel. Because with deforms better with less engineering.
See also iron brakes in most cars hardened steel bearings everywhere.
eleitl@lemm.ee 11 months ago
It’s alumina. Which is aluminium oxide.
MeowZedong@lemmygrad.ml 11 months ago
If you really want to stop the stainless steel obsession, you could start cleaning the benches with bleach and not rinsing again afterwards. The corrosion will set in quickly.
Aluminum will stain, but it won’t start rusting.
dogsoahC@lemm.ee 11 months ago
I’ll just get a spray bottle of mercury and fuck your aluminium assface right up.
Garbanzo@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Two punches for calling it Aluminium
abraham_linksys@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Us Americans are too excited about making stuff with our Uh-loo-min-um that we just skip pronouncing some of the vowels
VonCesaw@lemmy.world [bot] 11 months ago
Guy that named it called it Aluminum
Weirdo types that decided they were in charge of naming things decided to name it Aluminium so it “matched” the likes of other metals like titanium, iridium, etc
Nomecks@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
'MINUM!
bazus1@lemmy.world 11 months ago
IKR I’m so glad I can pronounce Aluminum the right way.
rockerface@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Mistborn moment
Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
Aluminum is F grade allomantic material.
rockerface@lemm.ee 11 months ago
unless you need to block the allomancy
CodexArcanum@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Always been more of an iridium man myself
ByroTriz@lemmy.ml 11 months ago
Are you dense?
CodexArcanum@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Not as bad as those osmium-heads, plus we’ve got sparkle and color!
QuantumSparkles@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
I prefer all my farm tools and weapons to be made out of iridium personally, but that’s just me
DPRK_Chopra@hexbear.net 11 months ago
“Oh, hey guys. Have you heard about this awesome metal called aluminum? I’m so cool I stan a metal that makes up 8% of the weight of the Earth’s solid surface” - a fucking idiot
save_the_humans@leminal.space 11 months ago
Love a good ferromagnetic metal but how about that electric conductivity of copper
Etterra@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I’m a tungsten alloy man myself. Although it’s not nearly as flexible as some other metals, god damn is it strong.
sparkle@lemm.ee 11 months ago
I can’t think of many things you encounter every day that just use straight iron. Only alloys that use iron
repungnant_canary@lemmy.world 11 months ago
You as a human use pure iron. But non-animate objects, yeah mostly alloys
HauntedCupcake@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Uh, I hate to break it to you, but literally all the iron in the human body is either part of a protein or bound to other molecules. It’s not an alloy per se, but it isn’t exactly pure iron
labsin@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Pure aluminium is only used when you need to have very little reactivity.
General construction steel have >98% weight iron. Around the same as most aluminium alloys.
sparkle@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Really now? I thought most steel had way more carbon & chromium than that. I guess I underestimate how little is needed to make iron no longer mushy.
Ohmmy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
Sounds like aluminum is a loaner and iron plays well with others. I’d bet there is still more iron encountered every day than aluminum even if the aluminum is pure and the iron is alloyed.
HauntedCupcake@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Pure virgin aluminium vs chad alloyed iron
sparkle@lemm.ee 11 months ago
I was super confused when I read “loaner”, I thought you meant loaning as in like borrowing. But then I realized you meant “loner”. Lol
blind3rdeye@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Perhaps so, but one might argue that human tech relies more on iron than any other metal - because of its magnetic properties. We need iron to generate and manipulate electricity.
pyre@lemmy.world 11 months ago
sounds like a good argument for iron.
match@pawb.social 11 months ago
dwarf fortress taught me that aluminum is basically mithril
ArmokGoB@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
That’s because the only way to get aluminum, historically, was to find nuggets of it. The process for extracting it from bauxite wasn’t invented until the mid to late 1800s. This is reflected in Dwarf Fortress, as aluminum metal has the same value as platinum and bauxite is a near-worthless construction material.
shneancy@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I’ve never played that game but that so cool
daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
Non drinkable metals are just lame. You cannot even make a good cocktail without Mercury or Gallium.
dch82@lemmy.zip 11 months ago
Every metal is drinkable as a soup^very hot^
ArmokGoB@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 11 months ago
I saw something the other day where a dude said they used aluminum for the finish because it looked better than steel and I’m just like “that sounds like how I’ve heard girls prefer eggshell to off-white. They’re the same color!”
Shampiss@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Car guys are just the male equivalent of horse girls
Hadriscus@lemm.ee 11 months ago
I would have said centaurs were closer
vampira@lemmy.eco.br 11 months ago
He’s right, though. I can’t think of a metal more versatile than aluminium
blind3rdeye@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Titanium perhaps - but that is more different to get.
DarkCloud@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Pity it’s been suggested it’s a cumulative neurotoxin that contributes to Alzheimer’s disease.
Yambu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
I still can’t believe there’s people pronouncing it aluminium instead of aluminium
smeenz@lemmy.nz 11 months ago
You do realise that aluminium (ium) is not spelled the same as aluminum (um) ? It’s not a case of the same letters being pronounced two different ways
AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 11 months ago
I’m not the person you’re replying to, but actually, I didn’t know that; I just went and read up the history of the word and it’s pretty interesting (for a nerd like me), so thank you for highlighting this. I admit, it used to confuse/irk me to hear Americans pronouncing aluminium like aluminum, so it pleases me to realise that I was wrong and that Americans are actually just pronouncing aluminum like aluminum.
I think I didn’t realise this in part because apparently aluminium is generally used in American scientific writing. This is interesting to me because many journals style guidelines demand American spellings of words (My mind blanks of specific examples right now, but I often have to replace s with z when Americanising my writing). I don’t know why, but I find it neat to imagine a kinship with a hypothetical American scholar who curses as they “correct” aluminum to aluminium before submitting their paper.
sm1dger@lemmy.world 11 months ago
The same people who presumably fill balloons with helum, want to cut down on sodum in their diet, prevent Iran from refining uranum, power their phones with lithum batteries, and enjoy singing David Guetta’s house classic Titanum
TheMightyCanuck@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Soft ass non-magnetic piece of shit aluminum
pineapplelover@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Team Stainless Steel all the way. Strong and tougher than that weak aluminum shit.
myrrh@ttrpg.network 11 months ago
…anodised aluminium beats stainless steel in every application except hardness…
ikidd@lemmy.world 11 months ago
You… aluminum-loving sonofabitch.
pineapplelover@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Ever heard of hardened steel you aluminum loving mf?
MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 11 months ago
I prefer some alu in my steel pan. Heats faster.
Adkml@hexbear.net 11 months ago
Aluminum is the best metal in the world at being a plastic.
keepcarrot@hexbear.net 11 months ago
Is this a critique? That’s pretty dope
Adkml@hexbear.net 11 months ago
Not at all makes it ideal for a bunch of different applications.
Vehicle frame is not really one of them.
Gullible@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
At least we can all agree that diamond is the hardest metal.
VonCesaw@lemmy.world [bot] 11 months ago
Dragonforce is the hardest metal known to man, it is the metal you use to break diamond
Nomecks@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Pretty sure neutron star matter is the hardest metal pal.
lolcatnip@reddthat.com 11 months ago
Found the astronomer.
QuantumSparkles@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
I’ve often heard that Diamond Is Unbreakable
MeThisGuy@feddit.nl 11 months ago
but the love it’s supposed to represent is not
kat_angstrom@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I thought carbon fibre was the hardest metal
Zagorath@aussie.zone 11 months ago
With the right definition, carbon fibre might indeed be a metal. But it’s never the hardest.
IsoSpandy@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Uranium is the one true metal
programmer@programming.dev 11 months ago
Can confirm Rust is superior!
MyTurtleSwimsUpsideDown@fedia.io 11 months ago
Don’t get me started on titanium! 🙄
prowe45@lemm.ee 11 months ago
keepcarrot@hexbear.net 11 months ago
I just spent 4 hours renaming every instance of “aluminum” into “aluminium” in a bunch of inventor projects. >.>
superweeniehutjrs@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Together they are thermite!
7bicycles@hexbear.net 11 months ago
when you meet a steel is real bicycle guy
moshankey@lemmy.world 11 months ago
As a former cyclist, steel is real. I’ve seen aluminum bikes fail (as in, break at the top and down tube)during a ride. Screw your aluminum!
zea_64@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
Okay starkiller.
general_kitten@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
But it is tungsten that reigns supreme:
All the people here who bought this wireless tungsten cube to admire its surreal heft have precisely the wrong mindset. I, in my exalted wisdom and unbridled ambition, bought this cube to become fully accustomed to the intensity of its density, to make its weight bearable and in fact normal to me, so that all the world around me may fade into a fluffy arena of gravitational inconsequence. And it has worked, to profound success. I have carried the tungsten with me, have grown attached to the downward pull of its small form, its desire to be one with the floor. This force has become so normal to me that lifting any other object now feels like lifting cotton candy, or a fluffy pillow. Big burly manly men who pump iron now seem to me as little children who raise mere aluminum.
I can hardly remember the days before I became a man of tungsten. How distant those days seem now, how burdened by the apparent heaviness of everyday objects. I laugh at the philistines who still operate in a world devoid of tungsten, their shoulders thin and unempowered by the experience of bearing tungsten. Ha, what fools, blissful in their ignorance, anesthetized by their lack of meaningful struggle, devoid of passion.
Nietzsche once said that a man who has a why can bear almost any how. But a man who has a tungsten cube can bear any object less dense, and all this talk of why and how becomes unnecessary.
Schopenhauer once said that every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world. Tungsten expands the limits of a man’s field of vision by showing him an example of increased density, in comparison to which the everyday objects to which he was formerly accustomed gain a light and airy quality. Who can lament the tragedy of life, when surrounded by such lightweight objects? Who can cry in a world of styrofoam and cushions?
Have you yet understood? This is no ordinary metal. In this metal is the alchemical potential to transform your world, by transforming your expectations. Those who have not yet held the cube in their hands and mouths will not understand, for they still live in a world of normal density, like Plato’s cave dwellers. Those who have opened their mind to the density of tungsten will shift their expectations of weight and density accordingly.
To give this cube a rating of anything less than five stars would be to condemn life itself. Who am I, as a mere mortal, to judge the most compact of all affordable materials? No. I say gratefully to whichever grand being may have created this universe: good job on the tungsten. It sure is dense.
I sit here with my tungsten cube, transcendent above death itself. For insofar as this tungsten cube will last forever, I am in the presence of immortality.
cumskin_genocide@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Back in my younger days I joined a flat earth gang. Real fun guys. It was mostly just a dudes hanging out together, talking shit, and doing petty crimes.
One day we come across this dude and he starts going all in on us and how stupid we are. Shows up some stupid video of some nerd debunking us and talking shit to us. Darnell, one of the guys in the group is getting a bit agitated but this dude keeps talking shit to us and calling us dumb. Next thing you know Darnell sucker punches the guy and a couple of the other guys starts wailing on the guy. I joined in too because I wanted to support my friends. The last thing the guy heard was Darnell saying, ‘take his ass to the edge’.
FuckyWucky@hexbear.net 11 months ago
Tesla Cybertruck something something.
Hardy@lemmy.ml 11 months ago
And i hate Tin…
Vinny_93@lemmy.world 11 months ago
A-lu-min-i-um
TheTetrapod@lemmy.world 11 months ago
People always argue that -num isn’t a legitimate way for the name of an element to end, but I never see you guys talking about Platinium.
Vinny_93@lemmy.world 11 months ago
All words are made up and language isn’t real
rainynight65@feddit.org 11 months ago
Then we also need to talk about Sodum, Potassum, Magnesum, Plutonum, Uranum, Cadmum, Chromum, Titanum and a bunch more. Why should Aluminum be the outlier?
Chadus_Maximus@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Yeah because platinum is a concept. Nobody has gotten an aluminum record, or an aluminum medal. Some metals have ascended beyond mere utility into superficiality.
pythonoob@programming.dev 11 months ago
Pronounced aluminyum
anzo@programming.dev 11 months ago
Halloumi, yummy.