What is the densest, softest alloy that can easily be mass-produced?

indium
soft enough you can chew it
a little less dense than iron

Mercury.

>op asks for an alloy
>retards posting elements

1. You'll never get pure elemental metals, so if there's just a trace of another metal, it's technically an alloy
2. in general alloying hardens the material

Benisinfaginum

Mercury amalgams.
Mercury forms a variety of alloys that are all incredibly dense, but also very soft.
For density, try gold amalgam.

>1kg of it weighs 10kg
Next thing your gonna say is 1lb of bricks weighs more than 1lb of feathers

Diamond.

haha, you caught the joke. I think it went over these other posters heads.
We should tell them that in fact 1kg cant be 10 kgs since both are mass

/thread

Lead with a smidgen of mercury? You've got to sniff it to know you've got the right proportions.

>Grabs martensite
>HE DIDNT BEND SO GOOD, WHO WANTS TO TRY NEXT
>A LOT OF TOUGHNESS FOR A HIGH CARBON STEEL
>Or perhaps he is wondering why would you tensile test a metal, before studying the stress in the plane
>At least you can talk, who are you
>No one cared who I was until they watched The Dark Knight Rises
>it doesn't matter who we are. What matters is our composition
>if I tensile test you will you break?
>it would be extremely painful
>you're an elastic guy
>WW
>was getting quenched part of your plan?
>of course!
>well congratulations you got yourself quenched, what's the next step of your master plan ?
>CHANGING TO BCC
>WITH NO DIFFUSION

You blew line 6, otherwise pleasure.

Diamond. It's the hardest metal.

Aluminum is not particularly dense though.

I don't think you can easily answer that question if you don't have a particular application in mind. Chemical resistance, hardness, ductility are all things that somehow relate to each other so you really have to decide which properties are secondary. I agree with , that sounds like a good starting point though I am not sure if it can be produced "easily" when scarcity becomes an important factor. In other words, how much do you need and is toxicity / decay an issue too?

Lovely. Absolutely lovely.

Wew oldfag.

Bainite?

Tungsten-Mercury.

Hehe, I get it

You misspelled Dragonforce

Not sure about hardness, but with the particular metals listed here and the low melt temps, these must be contenders...
rotometals.com/low-melt-fusible-alloys/

As said I was matching Bane with Bainite something people would not laugh about before watching TDKR

If you knew and still didn't like it then it's coolio, wanted to make sure

it is very unlikely that the densest alloy will be softest alloy and you can't just dial in the two properties independently of each other

But lots of heavy metals are soft. Gold and lead being two examples.

but does OP care more about density or softness? it will change the answer

Do we count liquids as super soft?

I thought you were retardeed, but turns out you are just autistic.

Pure sodium. Oh you said alloy? NaK, it's a liquid. It's incredibly easy to mass produce, but upon production reacts violently with ambient water vapor.

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>look he'a
>wa'e
>ba'els of wa'e

Interesting point. Also, when you freeze mercury will it have the consistency of lead or iron?

Are you going to answer the question or not?

I would say density matters more in this instance.

irridium is the densest element, alloys of irridium tend to have increased hardness, rather than decreased

OP's brain.

Come one, come all, observe this thread making menace who is simultaneously incredibly dense and unimaginably soft headed.

Buckyball

Osmium is the densest element

Whether Osmium or Irridium comes out larger depends on how you calculate the density.

I don't see the sense in quibbling.

chemistry.about.com/od/elementfacts/f/densest-element.htm

Has osmium anything to do with Turkey?

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apparently my quenched bit wasn't OC. Well it was in my head :(

>You'll never get pure elemental metals, so if there's just a trace of another metal, it's technically an alloy
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I'd check out some copper amalgams, like said. Otherwise you may have luck with certain types of lead solders.

LOW DENSITY

Lead is probably the best option for high density and low hardness while being mass-producable

If it's any consolation, the BCC ...no diffusion line is a better punchline IMO

Now *that's* autism at work.