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Metal melted out of a car (npr.brightspotcdn.com)
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The shiny puddles look like some low-temp metal melted and oozed out of the car as it burned. I wonder what part(s) melted, and what type of metal it is?

The picture is from a NPR piece about the current Los Angeles wildfires: https://www.npr.org/sections/the-picture-show/2025/01/09/g-s1-41784/los-angeles-fire-photos

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Something about this really makes me want to see if you can separate out the component metals of a car via extremely high temp fractional distilation.