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my most hated element is barium because sometimes a doctor will make you drink some of it and no one should have to drink metal
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rotor posted:also selenium, idk why, i just hate it. ever work in QA?
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rotor posted:also selenium, idk why, i just hate it. a bunch of old film cameras used selenium light meters for auto exposure without the need for batteries, but it loses sensitivity over time so almost all of them are completely inaccurate today.
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post hole digger posted:the absolute posters high you must have felt when you saw 'zinc' there and realized the options available to you for a reply. idk if I’ve ever felt so strongly about something that I’d quote myself with a lol. my posting peaked with that one there
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i prefer the ones like plumbum and aurum
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post hole digger posted:ever work in QA? oh right
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gently caress sodium, it's always salty and throws a tantrum when it gets wet
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potassium is like that too but it also has the word rear end in the haha rear end
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unobtainium is just ungoodwritingum
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tiberium? now there's an name for a fictional alien ore
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post hole digger posted:ever work in QA? all I know about working in QA comes from https://www.leisuretown.com/library/qac/2.html
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RokosCockatrice posted:tiberium? now there's an name for a fictional alien ore I think I require more vespene gas.
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RokosCockatrice posted:tiberium? now there's an name for a fictional alien ore hell yes
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quadrotriticalene is S-tier as well
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Sagebrush posted:each one of those points is its own separate post. so i will summarize by saying yes, around the transitional period between the bronze and iron ages, the relatively well developed copper alloys would have been generally better than the brand new and not well understood iron-carbon system. mostly in terms of ease of working and the ability to get reliable and predictable material properties. iron properties are very sensitive to carbon content -- a few percent making the difference between soft and bend and hard and fragile -- and this carbon content is hard to control since it's in the air and it also comes from the fire you're using to melt the metal. imo stainless own it's clearly basically "cool iron" or "iron that isn't poo poo"
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Stainless is annoying. It's cool that it doesn't rust but all that chromium makes it hard to work with. The best steel is 4140.
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Sagebrush posted:Stainless is annoying. It's cool that it doesn't rust but all that chromium makes it hard to work with. The best steel is 4140. what about white #2
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anyone said mercury yet? that’s a cool metal
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Sagebrush posted:Stainless is annoying. It's cool that it doesn't rust but all that chromium makes it hard to work with. The best steel is 4140. stainless poo poo owns
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It really doesn't. It's fine but it's expensive, hard to work with, toxic when welded. It's significantly weaker than non-stainless steel too
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Sagebrush posted:It really doesn't. It's fine but it's expensive, hard to work with, toxic when welded. It's significantly weaker than non-stainless steel too yeah they should just throw all that garbage steel into the ocean and rebuild everything with a real metal
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Sagebrush posted:It really doesn't. It's fine but it's expensive, hard to work with, toxic when welded. It's significantly weaker than non-stainless steel too it looks cool tho #checkmate
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i like stainless steel because it means my cutlery doesn't rust.
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i sure do hate rust
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rotor posted:i sure do hate rust You should try evap-o-rust. it's incredible stuff distortion park posted:i like stainless steel because it means my cutlery doesn't rust. Try silver instead! Sagebrush fucked around with this message at 21:05 on Oct 14, 2023 |
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Sagebrush posted:You should try evap-o-rust. it's incredible stuff my solution has been to use wood instead of steel everywhere i can, and stainless or brass everywhere else.
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brass? more like rear end
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nah jokes brass is good machining it is satisfying
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flourine more like boring [editor’s note: works better if you say it out loud]
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gold. the gold standard of overhyped metals. lame!
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Lutetium metal is mass produced entirely because in the 1990s Siemens invented a new PET scanner design, which would have required more than the global annual supply to build a single prototype. So they decided they just had to find lutetium ore and extract the atoms they needed from it first.
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