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.
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Tin will devour itself anyway
Only because it knows tungsten is out there lurking. Waiting. Hunting.
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These two clearly don't know about titanium.
A metal as hard as my heart
And fractures just as easily
Tungsten enters the chat
But it turns out to be too dense to follow along.
Until it meets some carbide…
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Fucker so hard no one wants to work with it.
Fuck off tittyboi
Steel is the king
That's just spiced iron
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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".
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.
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
I mean, we didn't just arbitrarily decide that gold would be expensive, we decided it would be expensive because it's pretty. It seemed like a good idea a few thousand years ago.
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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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very clearly the best metal is mercury because it's the only one you can drink at room temperature
Gallium wants a word.
Eating Gallium is like eating M&M's.
Melts in your mouth, not in your hands.
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Aluminum "rusts" as well. White rust. Aluminum oxide.
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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You also need both iron oxide and aluminum powder to make thermite. It's amazing what metal can achieve when it works together.
And if you combine that with magnesium powder, you can make a historic doping agent to coat your zeppelin with!
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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
Highly conductive
Until it oxidizes, and silver is a complete whore for oxygen.
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I only fly in airplanes made of 100% American steel.
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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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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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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Sad to see so low level of intellect in the comment section; can't even spell the element aluminium correctly
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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
Someone took my stainless steal, but at least they cleaned up after themselves
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