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[–] XTL@sopuli.xyz 111 points 6 months ago (10 children)

These two clearly don't know about titanium.

[–] Blackout@kbin.run 30 points 6 months ago (1 children)

A metal as hard as my heart

[–] Xanthrax@lemmy.world 45 points 6 months ago (2 children)

And fractures just as easily

[–] FederatedSaint@lemmy.world 22 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 6 months ago

But it turns out to be too dense to follow along.

Until it meets some carbide…

[–] sorter_plainview 11 points 6 months ago

And oceangate decided it's the best material for deep diving.

[–] hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

Fucker so hard no one wants to work with it.

Fuck off tittyboi

Steel is the king

[–] Dagnet@lemmy.world 12 points 6 months ago

That's just spiced iron

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[–] liam070@sopuli.xyz 71 points 6 months ago (4 children)
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[–] slurpyslop@kbin.social 58 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (4 children)

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

[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io 37 points 6 months ago (2 children)
[–] slurpyslop@kbin.social 28 points 6 months ago (11 children)

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) (5 children)

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 (1 children)

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 44 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 37 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Hey, Elon.

Got bored with twitter?

[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 21 points 6 months ago (2 children)
[–] FederatedSaint@lemmy.world 28 points 6 months ago (4 children)

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 (1 children)

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 (4 children)

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 40 points 6 months ago (3 children)

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 38 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Highly conductive

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

[–] remotedev@lemmy.ca 37 points 6 months ago (3 children)
[–] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 27 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 (1 children)
  • Turns you blue if you consume it daily
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[–] magnetosphere@fedia.io 33 points 6 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] Assman@sh.itjust.works 20 points 6 months ago (2 children)

This idiot forgot the beer can age

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[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 31 points 6 months ago (14 children)

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

[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 29 points 6 months ago (4 children)

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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[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 14 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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

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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.

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[–] PenisWenisGenius@lemmynsfw.com 28 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

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 break into your garage to get revenge, he'll break his hammer and hurt his wrist because iron ingots are superior in strength. That'll show him.

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[–] Nomecks@lemmy.ca 27 points 6 months ago (5 children)

Carbon is the best metal, ask any astrophysicist.

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[–] Olhonestjim@lemmy.world 23 points 6 months ago (4 children)
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[–] echodot@feddit.uk 17 points 6 months ago (4 children)

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

Still the most normal conversation on 4chan

[–] gmtom@lemmy.world 16 points 6 months ago (3 children)

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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[–] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 6 months ago (9 children)

i like uranium better.

Cursed as fuck metal.

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[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 15 points 6 months ago (6 children)

Why is nobody here for-copper?

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[–] Blackout@kbin.run 13 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (4 children)

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

[–] JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 18 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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

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[–] nexguy@lemmy.world 13 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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

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

[–] randint@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 11 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Aluminum has always been my favorite element and metal. I feel the urge to punch this anon in his aluminum-hating fuckface.

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[–] iiGxC@slrpnk.net 11 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

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