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Aluminum (mander.xyz)

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[-] Vinny_93@lemmy.world 129 points 3 months ago

A-lu-min-i-um

[-] TheTetrapod@lemmy.world 36 points 3 months ago

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.

[-] Vinny_93@lemmy.world 20 points 3 months ago

All words are made up and language isn't real

[-] rainynight65@feddit.org 13 points 3 months ago

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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[-] pythonoob@programming.dev 16 points 3 months ago

Pronounced aluminyum

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[-] Kroxx@lemm.ee 72 points 3 months ago

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.

[-] Banichan@dormi.zone 98 points 3 months ago

STEEL IS AN ALLOY, YOU PHILISTINE

[-] waigl@lemmy.world 40 points 3 months ago

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

[-] Pringles@lemm.ee 14 points 3 months ago

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

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[-] Wogi@lemmy.world 25 points 3 months ago

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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[-] MeowZedong@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 3 months ago

If you really want to stop the stainless steel obsession, you could start cleaning the benches with bleach and not rinsing again afterwards. The corrosion will set in quickly.

Aluminum will stain, but it won't start rusting.

[-] dogsoahC@lemm.ee 11 points 3 months ago

I'll just get a spray bottle of mercury and fuck your aluminium assface right up.

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[-] Garbanzo@lemmy.world 46 points 3 months ago

Two punches for calling it Aluminium

[-] abraham_linksys@sh.itjust.works 23 points 3 months ago

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

[-] VonCesaw@lemmy.world 36 points 3 months ago

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

[-] lud@lemm.ee 11 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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

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[-] hessenjunge@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 3 months 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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[-] bazus1@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago

IKR I'm so glad I can pronounce Aluminum the right way.

[-] rockerface@lemm.ee 27 points 3 months ago

Mistborn moment

[-] Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 3 months ago

Aluminum is F grade allomantic material.

[-] rockerface@lemm.ee 9 points 3 months ago

unless you need to block the allomancy

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[-] CodexArcanum@lemmy.world 26 points 3 months ago

Always been more of an iridium man myself

[-] ByroTriz@lemmy.ml 29 points 3 months ago

Are you dense?

[-] CodexArcanum@lemmy.world 18 points 3 months ago

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

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[-] save_the_humans@leminal.space 19 points 3 months ago

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

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[-] match@pawb.social 19 points 3 months ago

dwarf fortress taught me that aluminum is basically mithril

[-] ArmokGoB@lemmy.dbzer0.com 27 points 3 months ago

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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[-] sparkle@lemm.ee 19 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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

[-] repungnant_canary@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago

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

[-] HauntedCupcake@lemmy.world 12 points 3 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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[-] daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 3 months ago

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

[-] dch82@lemmy.zip 20 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Every metal is drinkable as a hot soup

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[-] vampira@lemmy.eco.br 17 points 3 months ago

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

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[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 17 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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@sh.itjust.works 16 points 3 months ago

Car guys are just the male equivalent of horse girls

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[-] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 14 points 3 months ago

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

[-] myrrh@ttrpg.network 11 points 3 months ago

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

[-] ikidd@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago

You... aluminum-loving sonofabitch.

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[-] TheMightyCanuck@sh.itjust.works 14 points 3 months ago

Soft ass non-magnetic piece of shit aluminum

[-] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 14 points 3 months ago

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

[-] VonCesaw@lemmy.world 16 points 3 months ago

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

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[-] Yambu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 3 months ago

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

[-] smeenz@lemmy.nz 16 points 3 months ago

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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[-] MyTurtleSwimsUpsideDown@fedia.io 11 points 3 months ago

Don’t get me started on titanium! 🙄

[-] Pirky@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months 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 :(