What is the best metal or alloy, /b/? Pro tip: >It's

>>726069803
This is literally the best metal. Who the fuck is arguing this point?

>>726070110
Bump for metal debate

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You idiots adamantite is way stronger

>>726069803
Titanium?

>>726069803
It's clearly steel. carbon and iron for the win.

>>726070110
Ah, but taste in metal is subjective. Some prefer Gold for its value, or Steel for it's variety. Magnesium is top tier as well, not to mention all the space shit Nasa or Defense skunkworks cook up

>>726070308
No debate I'm afraid, OP is clearly spot on

>>726069803
Death metal.
Did I win?

>>726069803
I prefer mimetic poly-alloy.

Diamond, the hardest metal known to man

>>726070355
Well value doesn't always mean worth.

So there's literally no metallic substance known to man better than Titanium?
Bullshit. I bet there are some alloys which top it.

>>726070552
Nice meme

>>726070588
If there is, it hasn't been discovered

>>726070355
Magnesium might have it in the future. with that north carolina alloy

Silicon obviously.

Also plutonium.

>>726069803
I personally love working with tin because it melts so easy

>>726070690
Race cars usually have magnesium everything.
They corrode in months.

Diamond is the best metal known to man

>>726070423
Fuck off, it's pirate metal

>>726070754
Yeah cause it's weak. Titanium isn't weak.

>>726070837
It's fantasy nigger

I feel mithril is completely unrepresented in this thread. It is much better than all your other shit-tier metals Anons.

>>726070875
So how strong would a full titanium car be? Disregard cost.

If a regular steel car hits a brick wall at 60mph, and crumples 40% of the chassis instantly (cockpit level), how well would a Ti shell do?

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>>726070423
pleb
>>726070837
memetal faggot

The answer is crossover thrash.

>>726070837
Newfag

It's obviously Shrek metal

>>726071078
Not a whole lot, commonly used Al alloys are as strong by weight as Ti anyway but ofc the Ti of the same weight would be thinner. We've already surpassed them with Carbon composites though.

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>>726071376
WE ARE NOT A MEME

>>726071540
So carbon weave pretty much made metal obsolete for functional use?

>>726071694
Price out of the question, yeah in terms of outright strength.

>>726069803
tungsten for its high melting point

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>>726071557
There's like two bands that make pirate metal, fuckwad.

>>726069803
Osmiridium. /thread

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>>726071690
Fuck of baby metal, war metal is here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6MgTQ-56P0

Lithium. It is super reactive.

Nothing can beat boron carbide
Ceramics for the win

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You might as well share some memes

>>726072312
True, but they don't hold up under a lot of pressure.

>>726072312
But aren't they brittle?

>>726071798
Yeah tungsten is pretty cool

>>726069803
The best metal is the one you and i doesnt know exists. Its the one used on black projects made of unknown elements not on periodic table.

ITT
>people that don't realize that wood is the real future building material

>>726069803
Titanium alloy that I discovered. Has Titanium, Cobalt, Platinum, along with a few more trace elements that I'd rather not list. The first sample I was able to produce correctly has yet to be deformed in any way (measured down to 1/10 a thousandth), even after using a 20k ton hydraulic press. And the sample is only approximately .25x.25 inches big.

>>726069803
just the tip

In b4 somebody posts that little red head dinosaur killing bitch from horizon.

What's her name again?

>>726072553
You should make a sword out of it.

>>726072489
lol

You mean the ones that can only be created and maintained in laboratory conditions for fractions of a second because they are so inherently unstable?

>>726072653
Her name is Faggot.

>>726072653
I dunno man I stopped playing vidya before the last console gen. On disc DLC, microtransactions, DRM; fuck that noise.

>>726072553
Body armor and space ships. Call it Ceramite.

No one is giving aluminum credit.

Legit question for any scifags

Are nukes our lvl 99 weapon or can we cook up something even more OP

>>726072869
Maybe ask again without the video game speak nonsense? Weapons do different things, you know, and there are different kinds of nuclear weapons.

You want real destruction, Google "relativistic weapons."

>>726072869
Yes, look at want the USSR did back when it was the USSR. Just do some research.

>>726073006
>relativistic weapon
Basically near infinite mass punch?

>>726072413
Boron carbide (B4C) is one of the strongest materials known to man
A lot of ceramics can be brittle, but B4C can withstand pressure and bending forces, and as an extra little feature it's a very good neutron absorber

>>726073157
Yes Tsar Bomba looks majestic.

>>726069803
I like copper for its conductive abilities an tensile strength compared to aluminium and low purchase price compared to silver. Its not the perfect alloy, but its the best there is.

>>726073157
Its was called the tsar bomb.

Hydrogen since scientists recently found out it was a metal and it's needed in a lot of drug compounds, water, alcohol and rocket fuel.

It's kind of scary that there are tens of thousands of active nukes out there.

>>726072869
Tungsten rods fired from satellites.

Not even a chance at defense. Fire and forget, no guidance computer, just a giant slab of metal hitting the target at fuck-you miles per hour.

>>726070588
Calcium 48

>>726073314
The proposed Finger of God, right?

So a fully kinetic weapon would cause more damage than a thermonuclear detonation?

>>726073312
There is the tsar II bomb which is 2 times bigger than the original. They never tested it because it would have been too dangerous.

>>726069803
Steel ofc faggot. Get that overpriced shit out.

Lithium obviously.

Lighter than air, used in 90% of rechargeable batteries, and keeps bipolar people from rising up against the system.

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>>726069803
Not so fast Titanium nigger.
Tungsten is the alpha metal.

>>726070325
real metals only pls.

Gallium. you can stick your dick in it.

Tungsten Carbide

>>726072754
>>726072659
Haven't figured out what to call it yet. Also, all conventional cutting/grinding methods have proved ineffective in actually trying to shape it. I've been able to determine its melting point is ~4720 F which is kinda insane, due to the fact that in the process of producing it, the temperature only got to about 4300 F.

>>726073486
It probably won't do more raw damage, but no nuclear fallout to the area

>>726073494

Implying the soviets actually did make nukes and their tests wern't just films made on a set.

>>726073494
I thought that was just the original Tsar Bomba? They had to replace half the Tsar Bomba they detonated with lead, as it would have been too powerful to test (~100MT)

>>726073616
That my boy

Mithril

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I like Brass the most. It's versatile, very malleable, good to make musical instruments and other tools, and looks pretty.

The best metal is death metal.

>>726073707
Something like that was also an issue.

>>726073686
The Moon landing was a fake shot by Kubrick to distract the nation from the fact that JFK was a sauroid alien after he was shot in his heart.

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Lead, because it slowly giving everyone cancer

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>>726073824
Try again, fagg. Like I said, it's crossover metal.

Titanium is God tier

Idk man Runite is good but Dragon is better.

G'night boys. And my sic fag brethrens.

>>726073642

I'm afraid I'm not into material science, but do "conventional methods" include diamond cutting? Cuz that's a 10 on the Mohs scale.

8Cr13MoV for Folding Knifes

Could you build real diamond armor and be invincible then?

>>726070349
Oh yeah it must be steel.. what was the chemical element for steel again? oh yeah must be Ti

>>726069803
Titanium is fucking shit. Steel is stronger, titanium is just lighter.

>>726073634
this one is up there

>>726074051
I believe diamond is way too brittle in certain directions
If you were hit by anything like a sword of bullet, the armour would shatter, as some materials are very strong in some directions across the crystals and very brittle in other directions

>>726074051
if you want carbon armor you would need to layer carbon sheets called graphene.

I heard you can stab a sheet the thickness of serran wrap with a pencil and the force of an elephant and it wouldn't penetrate. Though wouldn't the pencil break idk scientist make the stupidest analogies.

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>>726073634
Actually that's present on most carbide-hardened alloys, being the cobalt-chromium-tungsten Stellite alloy the most used.

Stellite is applied as a coating through thermal aspersion, forming a layer which thickness varies on a range from 250 to 350 microns.

It's used for high corrosion resistance and wear resistance. Examples are: valve inner mechanisms for corrosion and erosion, M60 machinegun barrels and machining tools.

Cobalt and tungsten carbide

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Why don't you have a look at s,n.a,p.c,h,a,t.y(,)me to fap to your ex-gfs nudes.

Inconel is some serious shit

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>>726074285
derp

I'm gonna be that guy. Depends on the application. Your alloy ain't shit if you can't work it. The price wouldn't outweighs the benefit in most situations.

>>726074697
I second that. Any of you half wits ever tried to machine titanium? Fuckin pain in the dick

>>726074051
Diamond is too hard. Excessive hardness makes it virtually unscratchable, but its tenacity (impact absorption) is greatly reduced. Thus its brittle.

Diamond is better used as a powder coating to avoid superficial wear on machining tools for example. As a powder, its low tenacity isn't a problem, thus its high hardness and thermal resistance/dimensional stability makes it perfect to coat cutting equipment.

Instead, go for this >>726074285

>>726074585
What I don't get is why so much hype on carbon atom bonds? Are they stronger than any other atomic bonds?

What would happen if we made atom thick titanium sheets?

>>726073998
Yeah, though its not like its 100% ineffective. Its just we are going thru way too much to just try and put a small scratch in it. It took completely ruining 7 diamond tips just to make a measurable mark.

>>726069803
NiTi is far more interesting

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>>726074833

>>726070588
Depends on the application. Gold and platinum are the best metals for extremely corrosive enviroments, like high-temperature chloridric acid.

However their cost are prohibitive for ordinary industry process equipments.

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best alloy.
get rekt fuckers
https://phys.org/news/2016-07-lab-titanium-gold-alloy-harder-steels.html

>>726074795
Aside, diamond is also suitable for coating bioelectric implants. It shields the device from the effects of the body, and vice versa, while having almost no effect on electrical properties.

This is at the nm scale, of course; maybe as high as a micron. I forget exactly. The seminar explaining the process was a while back.

Diamond has some cool uses.

>>726069803
Diamond
/thread

Chitin top tier

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Killed the fucking dinosaurs, didn't it?

>>726069803
Its Thallium, I just found a load of that shit in some fuel I am transporting.

35 grams in half a teaspoon, that shit will kill you ass.

Just ask the Kurds.

>>726069803
>>726070110
>>726070588
>>726072553
>>726073624
>>726073934

Titanium-gold alloy is four times harder than titanium alone.

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>>726076088
dump in nigger water supply

I centerless grind Carbide blanks for a living, faggots.

>>726069803
Depends on what you are trying to do with it. Steel is cheap and strong, aluminium is cheap alternative to titanium, and then there are the composite materials that offer superior properties to metals.

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Iron

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Invar.

Best alloy.

Holds it's shape significantly better than any other metal or alloy under high temps by resisting expansion.

Without invar, producing high quality composite parts for aerospace use is near impossible.

>>726077937
This.

The earth consists mostly of iron. It's the single most important metal in our bodies, enabling us to breathe. And, we'll all BE iron in the end, once every atom of matter in the universe has been cycled through enough supernovas, all matter in the universe will have turned into iron atoms, forming an extremely low-density, almost-zero-temperature ocean of iron liquid covering the entire cosmos.
Sat what you will about other metals, but iron will get the last laugh.

Silicone.

Most flexible metal probably.

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>>726074585
Graphene doesn't work like that.

It has high tensile strength, which means it resists being ripped by pulling it straight apart, but it can be very easily torn with from any other direction.

>>726079657
>It's the single most important metal in our bodies,

But it is substitutable.
Calcium is the most important metal in humans.

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/thread

>>726080090
No. If we didn't have calcium we'd be amorphous blobs but still alive. If we didn't have iron we'd just be dead

Chlorine.

It kills bacteria.

>>726080608
Chlorine isn't metal you dummy. Keep your silly boy bands out of this

Due to extensive research done by the University of Pittsburgh, diamond has been confirmed as the hardest metal known to man. The research is as follows. Pocket-protected scientists built a wall of iron and crashed a diamond car into it at 400 miles per hour, and the car was unharmed. They then built a wall out of diamond and crashed a car made of iron moving at 400 miles an hour into the wall, and the wall came out fine. They then crashed a diamond car made of 400 miles per hour into a wall, and there were no survivors. They crashed 400 miles per hour into a diamond traveling at iron car. Western New York was powerless for hours. They rammed a wall of metal into a 400 mile per hour made of diamond, and the resulting explosion shifted the earth's orbit 400 million miles away from the sun, saving the earth from a meteor the size of a small Washington suburb that was hurtling towards mid-western Prussia at 400 billion miles per hour. They shot a diamond made of iron at a car moving at 400 walls per hour, and as a result caused two wayward airplanes to lose track of their bearings, and make a fatal crash with two buildings in downtown New York. They spun 400 miles at diamond into iron per wall. The results were inconclusive. Finally, they placed 400 diamonds per hour in front of a car made of wall traveling at miles per iron, and the result proved without a doubt that diamonds were the hardest metal of all time, if not just the hardest metal known to man.

WASPALOY

>>726069803
You're all idiots, there is no best metal, it all depends on what you plan to use it for.

>>726081119
I'll trade you some iron for some gold faggot.