• Hellfire103@lemmy.ca
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    10 months ago

    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
    • rtxn@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      Highly conductive

      Until it oxidizes, and silver is a complete whore for oxygen.

  • _NoName_@lemmy.ml
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    10 months ago

    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”.

  • Fat Tony@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    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.

    • SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de
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      10 months ago

      in fact, it rusts so fast, that it’s pretty much impossible to get a “clean” aluminium surface while oxygen is around

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        10 months ago

        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.