Okay starkiller.
He’s right, though. I can’t think of a metal more versatile than aluminium
Pity it’s been suggested it’s a cumulative neurotoxin that contributes to Alzheimer’s disease. That’s the one thing I don’t like about aluminium.
Titanium perhaps - but that is more different to get.
Punching strangers in the face can get expensve.
Non drinkable metals are just lame. You cannot even make a good cocktail without Mercury or Gallium.
Every metal is drinkable as a hot soup
Always been more of an iridium man myself
I prefer all my farm tools and weapons to be made out of iridium personally, but that’s just me
Are you dense?
Not as bad as those osmium-heads, plus we’ve got sparkle and color!
I’ll take osmium-heads over degenerates any day.
Two punches for calling it Aluminium
Us Americans are too excited about making stuff with our Uh-loo-min-um that we just skip pronouncing some of the vowels
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
Guy that named it called it Aluminum
Let me guess: you pronounce GIF as Jif just because the creator is a peanut butter obsessed weirdo who couldn’t pronounce “graphics”?
couldn’t pronounce “graphics”
That’s not how acronym pronunciation works though. We don’t pronounce them based on the words they stand for, otherwise we would pronounce NASA, SCUBA, LASER, etc. differently. Both pronunciations have valid arguments so why can’t we just accept both and stop being weird about it.
Because I arbitrarily decided it’s gif 13 years ago and anyone who says it the other way is wrong 😡😡😡
And thanks for that. Aluminum is a stupid as name.
As opposed to “Platinium”
Tantalium
Guy that named it called it Aluminum, Alumium, and Aluminium. Aluminium stuck, even in the US.
Then some weirdo types decided they were in charge of naming things in the US decided it needs to be Aluminum. It took them about 50-90 years to succeed.
No, the guy who discovered it called it Alumium, after Alum. Both Aluminum and Aluminium were later constructions by journals on opposite sides of the pond.
Weirdo types that decided they were in charge of naming things
You can say “British” here
'MINUM!
IKR I’m so glad I can pronounce Aluminum the right way.
Thorium master race.
Tesla Cybertruck something something.
But seriously making the body pannels out of stainless steel and the frame out of aluminum would be a hilarious joke among 2nd year engineering students about what happens when you let the sales people make the specs.
A-lu-min-i-um
Pronounced aluminyum
Halloumi, yummy.
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.
All words are made up and language isn’t real
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?
Because it’s literally the only one spelled that way? You remember, from your own examples…
You know thwy spelled them all wrong on purpose, right?
Because platinum is also a concept. Nobody has gotten an aluminum record, or an aluminum medal. Some metals have ascended beyond mere utility into superficiality. Aluminium isn’t there yet.
Together they are thermite!
At least we can all agree that diamond is the hardest metal.
Pretty sure neutron star matter is the hardest metal buddy
I’ve often heard that Diamond Is Unbreakable
but the love it’s supposed to represent is not
I thought carbon fibre was the hardest metal
With the right definition, carbon fibre might indeed be a metal. But it’s never the hardest.
that would be unoptanium, the hardest to find
easiest to find is definitely chinesium
Found the astronomer.
Dragonforce is the hardest metal known to man, it is the metal you use to break diamond
when you meet a steel is real bicycle guy
Steel is fucking rad and I do hope to get onto to a plush steel frame one day, but I’m loving my alum lately.
Most of the weight is not in the frame, it’s in the stupid big tyres and suspension (and the fatass on top!)
Carbon was fun, but so fragile and the lightness really didn’t change much (because of the above - the frame was beautifully light but it didn’t change the overall weight much) It is very repairable, though, much to my surprise
Mistborn moment
Aluminum is F grade allomantic material.
unless you need to block the allomancy
… Or other investiture
Cheese is better at blocking Shardblades anyway
Don’t get me started on titanium! 🙄
Titanium is awesome, though. Has similar corrosion properties to aluminum (in that it only oxidizes on the surface), is similar in strength to iron/steel, but is only about 60% of the weight iron. So it’s lighter.
Plus if you mix in molybdenum and I think some nickel, you can have yourself a very long lasting spring that won’t sag like steel springs after several years.
Main downside is it’s so expensive compared to iron :(
aluminum is a great metal for making flashlights. Especially after anodizing it.
It allows heat to be dissipated really fast too.
Makes a great lightweight dutch oven as well (especially when hard anodised). Non stick, doesn’t rust, still distributes and holds heat really well, and about 1/3 of the weight.
where I’m from, “dutch oven” doesn’t have anything to do with an actual oven
Yeah we have that meaning too :D
