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[–] [email protected] 128 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 month ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago

All words are made up and language isn't real

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (3 children)

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?

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 69 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Team aluminum all the way. A higher up where I work is obsessed with stainless steel, he gets these monstrous heavy duty tables made out of SS that hold objects 1/3 of their weight. Makes lab rearranging a nightmare lol.

[–] [email protected] 98 points 1 month ago (1 children)

STEEL IS AN ALLOY, YOU PHILISTINE

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The actual aluminium that people work with in actual real life are also alloys.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Your heresy is forgiven because you used the superior spelling of the metal in question.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Aluminum is where it's at, and where it is, is everywhere.

Your cans? Aluminum. Your car? Mostly aluminum. Old wiring, you better believe that's aluminum. Your fucking phone screen is aluminum, sand paper is aluminum, half the birth stones are all aluminum let's fucking goooo baybee

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Two punches for calling it Aluminium

[–] abraham_linksys 23 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Us Americans are too excited about making stuff with our Uh-loo-min-um that we just skip pronouncing some of the vowels

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 month ago (7 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

And thanks for that. Aluminum is a stupid ass name.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

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.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Aluminum is F grade allomantic material.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (3 children)

unless you need to block the allomancy

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Always been more of an iridium man myself

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Not as bad as those osmium-heads, plus we've got sparkle and color!

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

dwarf fortress taught me that aluminum is basically mithril

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That's because the only way to get aluminum, historically, was to find nuggets of it. The process for extracting it from bauxite wasn't invented until the mid to late 1800s. This is reflected in Dwarf Fortress, as aluminum metal has the same value as platinum and bauxite is a near-worthless construction material.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago

"Oh, hey guys. Have you heard about this awesome metal called aluminum? I'm so cool I stan a metal that makes up 8% of the weight of the Earth's solid surface" - a fucking idiot

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (11 children)

I can't think of many things you encounter every day that just use straight iron. Only alloys that use iron

Meanwhile, you'll use very pure aluminum all the time

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Love a good ferromagnetic metal but how about that electric conductivity of copper

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago (2 children)

He's right, though. I can't think of a metal more versatile than aluminium

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I saw something the other day where a dude talking about a car they were fixing up said they used aluminum for the finish because it looked better than steel and I'm just like "that sounds like how I've heard girls prefer eggshell to off-white. They're the same color!"

[–] Shampiss 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Car guys are just the male equivalent of horse girls

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Non drinkable metals are just lame. You cannot even make a good cocktail without Mercury or Gallium.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Every metal is drinkable as a hot soup

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[–] Gullible 14 points 1 month ago (8 children)

At least we can all agree that diamond is the hardest metal.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago

Dragonforce is the hardest metal known to man, it is the metal you use to break diamond

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Team Stainless Steel all the way. Strong and tougher than that weak aluminum shit.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (5 children)

...anodised aluminium beats stainless steel in every application except hardness...

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

You... aluminum-loving sonofabitch.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Aluminum is the best metal in the world at being a plastic.

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[–] TheMightyCanuck 13 points 1 month ago

Soft ass non-magnetic piece of shit aluminum

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I still can't believe there's people pronouncing it aluminium instead of aluminium

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You do realise that aluminium (ium) is not spelled the same as aluminum (um) ? It's not a case of the same letters being pronounced two different ways

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

Can confirm Rust is superior!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

Uranium is the one true metal

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (6 children)

I just spent 4 hours renaming every instance of "aluminum" into "aluminium" in a bunch of inventor projects. >.>

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Don’t get me started on titanium! 🙄

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

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 :(

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Together they are thermite!

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