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explain deez nutz (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

They are making plastic out of strange quarks!?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

What a quarky process recycling is!

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

were 99% binding energy anyway

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Deep down chemists know all chemistry is physics, and that fact makes their bones tremble.

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

And all physics is just statistics

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

And all statistics are damned lies.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

The Universe has left the chat

[+] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Not really. Plastic gets damaged when heating it up to melting temps. You won't get a product that has the same properties, unlike with aluminium for instance. You can maybe get away with adding a small percentage of recycled pellets back in, but that's it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Metals are also not 100% recyclable due to contamination. We just have plenty of use for low grade metal alloys.

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

Don't most of the contaminants come out as slag? (IDK I'm not an industrial furnace)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

It depends on the contaminant. For example, if iron is polluted with carbon, carbon will dissolve and even react with iron to produce cementite. That's how iron becomes steel.

And slag itself results in a metal loss. You can't drain it off and not waste some of the material you're recovering.

Basically there's no such thing as 100% recovery of recycled material in an industrial setting. You can do it in the lab at astronomical costs, sure, but your local metalworks are not capable of that. But that doesn't mean we should stop recycling.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Which literally means "anything other than aerospace engineering". Aluminium and other metals are infinitely more recyclable than plastics, which as I've said before, degrade immediately to being barely usable.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago

PET bottles yes, other plastic bottles not so much, or at least until someone figures out a way to turn plastic trash into a cheap alternative to petroleum.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

They're not recyclable yet. In a few years when we have Mr. Fusions and replicators, things will be different.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

Lol literally Recycling everything made of particles would be pretty sick

[–] [email protected] 73 points 2 months ago (4 children)

It’s true. Give me a hot and dense enough furnace and I’ll recycle everything into iron. EVERYTHING.

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

@pennomi @fossilesque by launching trash into sun? :blobthinksmart: :ablobcool: :blobthinkingcool:

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

@pennomi @fossilesque Sun's nuclear fusion can make atoms up to iron.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

The factory must grow.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Even denser and I'll make it neutronium.

... But not too dense or it becomes ???.

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

Hawking radiation.... eventually.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'll have two ingots of that, please.

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

I'm fine with just a bite. I'll go fetch my habanero sauce.