Anon hates aluminum
loaExMachina, 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.
Lilith_the_serpent, I hate aluminum too! It’s the plastic of metals.
Theharpyeagle, 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???
Lilith_the_serpent, I’m a welder. I’ve built and repaired copious amounts of aluminum projects. I hate it. Great material, nightmare to work with.
FellowEnt, Boron yo
Olhonestjim, Fuck you, titanium rules.
OsrsNeedsF2P, Titanium’s fire, yo
slurpinderpin, Everyone knows Titanium is the best metal, fuck these nerds
You999, Titanium is great up until you try to machine it. Now my boy platinum is where it’s at.
Tabula_stercore, Sad to see so low level of intellect in the comment section; can’t even spell the element aluminium correctly
YoorWeb, It’s aluminum in the US and aluminium everywhere else.
magnetosphere, 
Kinda like the metric system
nexguy, 
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.
omega_x3, Finally a relevant reason to post this instead of me just posting out of my love for zinc. youtu.be/U1iCZpFMYd0
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot,
echodot, Gallium or bust.
It’s not really useful but it looks cool and it’ll eat away at both if their metals.
mojo_raisin, It’s not really useful
I feel like I hear about it all the time in advanced tech like batteries and semi-conductors.
piccolo, Without gallium blue leds wouldn’t exist.
mojo_raisin, or white then too huh?
alcoholicorn, Also LEDs and screens.
randint, 
Aluminum has always been my favorite element and metal. I feel the urge to punch this anon in his aluminum-hating fuckface.
i_love_FFT, 
Aluminum is more common than iron on the Earth’s crust. They’re just jealous.
MiDaBa, It’s pronounced: Al-oom-in-ee-um
mojo_raisin, Aluminum is dollar store tin, fight me.
bi_tux, 
brass is tha best change my mind
iiGxC, Copper 👀
JayDee, 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”.
Liz, 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.
repungnant_canary, 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
Liz, So a gold mine is both literal and figurative, eh?
VindictiveJudge, I mean, we didn’t just arbitrarily decide that gold would be expensive, we decided it would be expensive because it’s pretty. It seemed like a good idea a few thousand years ago.
PenisWenisGenius, There’s also silver which is an off brand ripoff version of gold. It kind of sucks because it discolors and turns purple.
PenisWenisGenius, 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.
JackbyDev, Wouldn’t they just bend? Aluminum is very flexible.
PenisWenisGenius, They’d bend a little but they would eventually crack if you bent them enough. Aluminum ingots don’t bend like aluminum foil does.
Steamymoomilk, 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
spongebue, Someone took my stainless steal, but at least they cleaned up after themselves
milicent_bystandr, *stole
Digestive_Biscuit, 
Stainless steel has been around only 110 years. Imagine not having it. Crazy.
Dufurson, 
Iron pillar of Dheli wants a word
KillingTimeItself, i like uranium better.
Cursed as fuck metal.
bi_tux, it’s even glow in the dark!
Liz, Don’t you be lying up in this thread! Uranium is very boring looking. Just another grey metal.
bi_tux, but it glows in fallout );
TonyTonyChopper, 
well yes but also uranium dissolved in glass is fluorescent https://orau.org/health-physics-museum/img/museum/consumer-products/glass/vaseline-2.jpg
and uranium salts are bright yellow https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c6/Uranylnitrate_crystals.jpg/440px-Uranylnitrate_crystals.jpg
Liz, You can get loads of pretty uranium colors in solution. I love me some chemistry, where the answer to the question “what color is it?” is preceded by “well it depends on the oxidation state…”
TonyTonyChopper, wouldn’t that be postceded
Liz, The answer to the question is preceded by the phrase. Yeah, it was tricky grammar but I didn’t feel like trying to come up with a more clear phrasing.
Anyway, as in “Well, that depends on the oxidation state. Aqueous +2 would give you…”
KillingTimeItself, i mean technically, if you refine uranium into plutonium, and then isolate plutonium 238. It does glow.
KillingTimeItself, plutonium 238 moment.
leftzero, Everyone knows magnesium is the superior metal.
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