Anon hates aluminum

These two clearly don't know about titanium.

A metal as hard as my heart
- And fractures just as easily
Fucker so hard no one wants to work with it.
Fuck off tittyboi
Steel is the king
- That's just spiced iron
- Laughs in tungsten
Steel is much stronger than titanium.
Titanium is a middle ground between steel and aluminum.
- steel is an alloy

WRONG
- Yes, you are.

very clearly the best metal is mercury because it's the only one you can drink at room temperature

Gallium wants a word.
- you need your hvac serviced if your room is 85F
  UNCOMFORTABLE
- Eating Gallium is like eating M&M's.
  Melts in your mouth, not in your hands.
but you can eat potassium at room temperature
- big pop rock
Well I wanna drink a cold metal.

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.

Tin will devour itself anyway
- Only because it knows tungsten is out there lurking. Waiting. Hunting.
Tungsten gang represent
Highly recommend getting a tungsten cube. The density is surprising
I'm partial to titanium and nickel-chrome alloys. There's a reason they're named "super alloys"!
- More of an Aluminium/Magnesium or Iron/Titanium alloy guy myself but you do you!

I only fly in airplanes made of 100% American steel.

Hey, Elon.
Got bored with twitter?
- Don’t deadname X.

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
- There's also silver which is an off brand ripoff version of gold. It kind of sucks because it discolors and turns purple.

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.
- Who isn't
Turns you blue if you consume it daily
- Great if you want to cosplay a smurf
It's a great heat conductor too

Iron and bronze have entire ages of history named after them, so…

This idiot forgot the beer can age
- Beer cans have a plastic liner, otherwise the beer would eat through the aluminum.
Yeah but the iron age is more the iron alloy age, it just doesn't sound as cool.

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
- They had to invent an entirely new style of welding to weld it correctly because it rusts so much you can't even melt it for welding reliably.
- Stainless wire wheel
And if you combine that with magnesium powder, you can make a historic doping agent to coat your zeppelin with!
You also need both iron oxide and aluminum powder to make thermite. It's amazing what metal can achieve when it works together.
- YOU ARE WRONG COLONEL SANDERS, MOMMA'S RIGHT
Yeah but like, in order to get significant amounts of it you gotta be in a relatively harsh environment.
- You get a lot of it at sea. Not supposed to polish it off though, because the aluminum oxide acts as a barrier to further corrosion, whereas iron oxide flakes and continually exposes fresh surface.
- Dunno how harsh a warehouse is. We used to get oxidized stuff for our presses a lot

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.

Wouldn't they just bend? Aluminum is very flexible.
- They'd bend a little but they would eventually crack if you bent them enough. Aluminum ingots don't bend like aluminum foil does.

Carbon is the best metal, ask any astrophysicist.

It’s been proven without a doubt that diamonds are the hardest metal of all time, if not just the hardest metal known to man.
Only for the best submarines.
- I wanted to bring that joke );
Most chemists too, at least the good ones.
I'm a fan of nitrogen

Fuck you, titanium rules.

Titanium's fire, yo
Everyone knows Titanium is the best metal, fuck these nerds
- Titanium is great up until you try to machine it. Now my boy platinum is where it's at.

Gallium or bust.

It's not really useful but it looks cool and it'll eat away at both if their metals.

It’s not really useful
I feel like I hear about it all the time in advanced tech like batteries and semi-conductors.
- Also LEDs and screens.

i like uranium better.

Cursed as fuck metal.

it's even glow in the dark!
- Don't you be lying up in this thread! Uranium is very boring looking. Just another grey metal.
- plutonium 238 moment.

Still the most normal conversation on 4chan

God damn rustcucks can't deal with their own inferiority. When's the last time you even used pure iron for something instead of alloy, you fucking loser.🤡

When have you used pure aluminium though
you literally can't survive without iron, noob
- im going to call you a slur

Why is nobody here for-copper?

Good copper?
Good copper, right?
- Fooled by Ea-Nasir again
Because they'll just get told that all coppers are bastards.
MFs put up copper domes all over my native city in the 19th century, and now it’s all green domes.
- looks iconic tho
They were here. And took it all.

Aluminum is great, until you want to machine it. Then it's a gummy piece of shit.

As far as machining goes, AL is easy mode compared to high carbon steels, tool steels, and inconels.
- Inconel is an annoying cunt. Eats cutters and work hardens like a motherfucker.
Not if you know how to machine
Use the right feeds, speeds and tools. Also there’s different types of aluminum alloys with different levels of machinability. If what you say were true there wouldn’t be so many machined aluminum parts in just about every project I’ve ever worked on
Wait huh? I managed to machine aluminium with the cutter going in reverse. It's basically shiny wood, it's so easy to machine. People do it all the time on hobby routers, no need for a knee mill or sth
Edit: you can even machine alu with wood routers lol. Use a copy head and it'll be as perfect as a CNC
No machine! ONLY MELT!

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.

Finally a relevant reason to post this instead of me just posting out of my love for zinc. https://youtu.be/U1iCZpFMYd0

I would listen to this person's extremely specific rant.

https://www.primaryconnections.org.au/themes/custom/connections/assets/SBR/data/Chem/sub/corrosion/corrosion.htm

aluminum actually corrodes quicker, but it oxidizes to a layer of aluminum oxide that seals out air and water, whereas iron has a permeable oxide that lets air and water get to the iron under the oxide. So in practice it doesn't rust nearly as fast as iron

Aluminum has always been my favorite element and metal. I feel the urge to punch this anon in his aluminum-hating fuckface.

Aluminum is more common than iron on the Earth's crust. They're just jealous.
- It's pronounced: Al-oom-in-ee-um
Aluminum is dollar store tin, fight me.

Sad to see so low level of intellect in the comment section; can't even spell the element aluminium correctly

It's aluminum in the US and aluminium everywhere else.
- Kinda like the metric system

Iron is dogshit compared to aluminum

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
- *stole
Stainless steel has been around only 110 years. Imagine not having it. Crazy.
- Iron pillar of Dheli wants a word

Everyone knows magnesium is the superior metal.

brass is tha best change my mind

Copper 👀

I thought Ozzy was the best metal

Al i want yo know is how is it prnounced. Is the last i silent?

There is one i in Aluminum. It is not silent.
All the other elements use an i before the u. At some point we should fix the spelling: Helum, Sodum, Plutonum, etc
- Oh, really?
  The official IUPAC spelling is "Aluminium" - notice how there are two "I"s in there.
  Since IUPAC is quite literally the international authority on chemical terminology, I'd suggest their spelling is the correct one.
  If you want to spell it wrong, you do you, but don't act like it's the correct way to spell it.
Yes if you're American or Canadian, no if you're British, Australian, or New Zealander, and other varieties of English I'm afraid I'm not sure about. If you speak a variety that doesn't pronounce a second i, you probably also spell it without a second i
- Not to mention many other languages that use two i's:
  German, French: Aluminium Spanish, Portuguese: Aluminio Italian: Alluminio
  Just to name a few.
  'Aluminum' is just yet another instance where American English decided to be different for the sake of it, without any rhyme or reason.
In most cases, it is clearly pronounced.

Uranium makes my bones pointy

Foiled again, drat

Mistborn moment

Aluminum might not be fun. Duralumin on the other hand, is a different story.

Frank Costanza?!

The only true festivus pole is an Aluminum one

I hate aluminum too! It's the plastic of metals.

What, lightweight yet strong? Versatile? Yeah I guess it's like plastic, except the part where it's also infinitely recyclable. Just where do you get off on this aluminum hate???
- I'm a welder. I've built and repaired copious amounts of aluminum projects. I hate it. Great material, nightmare to work with.

https://youtu.be/sr0gNJ090JA

People really think some element born within a star or supernova is the best? Even tho none of them even have a Nirvana song named after them? The best ones are obviously those created either during the primordial nucleosynthesis or by spallation, when atoms are hit by cosmic rays in colder zones.

Boron yo