Yesterday i made a campfire and threw yet unidentified metal in it

Yesterday i made a campfire and threw yet unidentified metal in it.
Said metal melted, and i have collected 206g of it.
Density is ~6.24g/cm3.
What material can this be?
I've tried to look it up but got nowhere.
It's more than twice as heavy as aluminium, but about half the weight of lead.
The fire had very hot moments and contained lots of charcoal and aluminium cans (that did not melt).
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I filled it up to 600ml and added the metal.
The density is a bit inaccurate as i had to measure the water level with a millimeter ruler.

Seems like tellurium, honestly you just have to google the density and you get a metal that matches what you described almost perfectly.

It's tin

Looks like tin to me. It's a common metal in cans.

What the hell is this autistic shit who gives a fuck

I don't think it's tin, it was a frame for a table or something.

It's home, garden, and kitchen-science.
I'm wondering what i can do with this material, if it has any special properties.
Maybe i'll cast a knife out of it for shits and giggles.

>millions upon millions of pixels
>completely out of focus

Fuckin plebs.

Go jack off to this if focus makes you horny.
The dirt is some of the ash.

either zinc or tin, that's the only shit that will melt in a camp fire which looks like what you posted

engineeringtoolbox.com/metal-alloys-densities-d_50.html
engineeringtoolbox.com/melting-temperature-metals-d_860.html

That sounds anout right.
I guess it's zinc judging by the pics on google.

I don't think it's strong enough to cast a non-decorative knife out of it.
Thanks all of you for helping.

Measure the density properly

You know why they only label it up to 600 mls? Because that's where it stops being accurate

The largest piece of metal is higher than 500ml

It should all have (about) the same density. Take the small fragment and weigh it, then put it in the water.

think that's the same stuff they found at Roswell

I can't measure it accurately enough to weigh and submerge smaller pieces

I'm pretty sure it's zinc
pic related, i melted some zinc yesterday and this is how it look like, also you can easily break it in half

Solder!

The thickest is >5mm for me, but

Yeah, zinc or tin with air pockets in it.

I hope you people realise molten zinc releases toxic gasses. People who weld with zinc have to wear special respirators (most just try to avoid the zinc) to prevent zinc poisoning.

>it was a frame for a table or something
It's a zinc-aluminum-magnesium casting alloy, AKA "pot metal." It's used in most cheap Chinese products containing metal because of its low melting point and low cost.

Since it's a mixture of the three metals, none of the densities match. The percentages of each of the three metals will tend to vary, but zinc tends to be the dominant component, which is reflected by the density that you measured.

Oh shit, really? How bad for your health are the fumes? I was experimenting with heat treating some zinc alloy a while back and was noticing it was outgassing a bit, though I didn't have respirator.

no
theodoregray.com/periodictable/zincsafety.html

OP here, this entirely matches the material.
It reminded me of aluminium by it's shine, colour, and feel.
And now you say it, i kinda recognize the magnesium.
Thank you.

I don't know what i'm going to do with it.
It's not strong.
Any ideas are welcome.
Maybe i'll cast a metal dick with balls or something Veeky Forums related.
I got about 33 cm3.

20 dollars says it isnt one metal but a mixture of many.

It's an alloy as another user already pointed out