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Aluminum (mander.xyz)

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

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Punching strangers in the face can get expensve.

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

Plastic for the win? 😁

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (7 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

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

sounds like a good argument for iron.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Sounds like aluminum is a loner and iron plays well with others. I'd bet there is still more iron encountered every day than aluminum even if the aluminum is pure and the iron is alloyed.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I was super confused when I read "loaner", I thought you meant loaning as in like borrowing. But then I realized you meant "loner". Lol

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

Pure virgin aluminium vs chad alloyed iron

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

You as a human use pure iron. But non-animate objects, yeah mostly alloys

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago

Uh, I hate to break it to you, but literally all the iron in the human body is either part of a protein or bound to other molecules. It's not an alloy per se, but it isn't exactly pure iron

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months 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!"

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

Car guys are just the male equivalent of horse girls

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

Can confirm Rust is superior!

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago

Soft ass non-magnetic piece of shit aluminum

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

All the Simpsons fans out there know how great Zinc is.

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

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

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

I prefer some alu in my steel pan. Heats faster.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (3 children)

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

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

Ever heard of hardened steel you aluminum loving mf?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Fatigue resistance

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

Heat resistance

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

You... aluminum-loving sonofabitch.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (5 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Thank you for your service to the objectively superior spelling!

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

Australian business with australian standards. I wish we had a script for this :(

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago (1 children)

dwarf fortress taught me that aluminum is basically mithril

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I've never played that game but that's so cool

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