What's the best metal and why is it aluminum?

Anything other than tungsten is retarded

>>Monoatomic gold

False. Unobtainium is the best metal.

Zinc
>used for millenia as an essential component of bronze
>good corrosion resistance, bravely protects other metals against harm
>used in the first ever chemical battery (zinc-copper)
>regulates the immune system - protects your organism too
>supplementation increases testosterone
>mixed with just a little sulfur can be used as rocket fuel

That's not how you write carbon..

>aliminium
>metal
Nice bait

> carbon
> metal

chromium vanadium steel

>make some rust powder with electrolysis
>shitton of chromeshit pollutants and other cancer
Thanks.

didnt know that
fuck it I still love the Yield Strength if it...

Zinc sucks. I wish I lived in a world without any zinc.

but can you breathe it? Therefore oxygen is best metal

>ctrl + f + platinum
>zero results
Plebs, the lot of you.

That's Mythril though.

You all are retarded. As a chemist it is just so clear that there does not exist a single greatest metal, but I can say with certainty, aluminum is so far from the top it's disgusting. What the fuck is OP talking about. Probably likes it because he thinks he can melt it down out of soda bottles or some shit.

Caesium

It's iron you fucks

Dragonforce you idiots.

read that as "what is the base metal"
i was actually about to bust out my alchemy trivia

"Zinc, Come back. Zinc!"

As much as i want to say Hyperalloy, it clearly is Mimetic polyalloy.

Copper.

>He thinks mithril exists.
>It would be some alloy if it did.

seconded

^THIS^
Cheapest dense metal. An American quarter made from Tungsten would be worth about 30 cents, never depreciate, and be impossible to counterfeit. They could sinter them with copper for easy fabrication.

(LIGHT METALS)
magnesium 1.738
aluminum 2.700
titanium 4.506
vanadium 6.000
zirconium 6.520
zinc 7.140
manganese 7.210
chromium 7.190
tin 7.265

(LIGHT / HEAVY METAL BOUNDARY)
steel 7.750
iron 7.874
steel 8.050

(HEAVY METALS)
Niobium 8.570
Cadmium 8.650
cobalt 8.900
nickel 8.908
bismuth 9.780
copper 8.960
molybdenum 10.280
silver 10.490
lead 11.340
thorium 11.724
palladium 12.023
rhodium 12.410
ruthenium 12.450
hafnium 13.310
Mercury 13.534

(HEAVY / DENSE METAL BOUNDARY)
tantalum 16.690

(DENSE METALS)
uranium 19.100
tungsten 19.250
gold 19.300
plutonium 19.816
rhenium 21.020
platinum 21.450
iridium 22.560
osmium 22.590

"Densium"
Even though NATURAL Osmium is considered the the densest substance on earth, mono-isotopic Iridium 193 (AKA "Densium") is actually the densest substance on earth.

Also metallic Iridium is fairly inert while Osmium rusts in air and that rust is very toxic for people.

no only mutts say otherwise

this

underrated post

Fucking this.
Wolframite.

Timascus
See you later plebs

>zinc in bronze
user, zinc and copper are alloyed to form brass. You're thinking of tin.

Aluminum is barely a metal. It should be classified as a transition metal desu. Only thing it's really good for is powdered fuel in solid rocket motors, and even then it's not as good as Beryllium, the god-tier of light metals. Can't say no to a sonic propagation speed higher than Earth escape velocity.

Not as good a conductor of electricity or heat compared to silver, but outperforms gold.
Forms a dark patina and tarnishes blue green, which can be a plus if you're into that.
The only red metal, both gold and cesium are yellow, the only competitor is osmium with its blueish color.
Unlike platinum group metals it doesn't concentrate in the center of protoplanetary objects, which means copper is likely to remain in short supply even after asteroid mining floods the market with cheap gold, iridium, and so forth.
Forms many alloys with lighter metals to improve strength, managed to make aluminum useful when alloyed with it and forms the strongest, hardest, and most corrosion resistant bronze alloy.

Copper among the upper tier of metals for sure.

i prefer Gold
but my fav is wolfram

Osmium is blue, no contest it is better than iridium

Iridium itself is meh tier of the platinum group

Not Titanum?

>highest tensile strength of any metal
>as ductile and flexible as the best steel when pure
>two points harder on the Mohs scale than the hardest steel, also when pure
>when alloyed with carbon (analogous to the carbon content in iron forming steel) the resultant tungsten carbide is another two points harder still, near the top of the scale
>so close in density to gold that it is hard to tell a gold plated tungsten bar apart from a solid gold bar
>technically radioactive
>highest melting point of any metal, and of any element other than carbon.

Top tier metal coming through

>>Titanium

>highest strength to weight ratio of any metal
>weakest alloys stronger than the weakest steel, but strongest alloys weaker than the strongest steel
>resists high temperatures better than steel
>can form shape memory alloys
>doesn't machine easily, likes to gall up cutting tools, even harder to weld than aluminum, very difficult to refine
>bonds very well to bone, doesn't trigger the body's immune response at all, great for implants and artificial joints
>is essentially aluminum's bigger, stronger brother but don't tell anyone
>doesn't make a good knife but does make great body armor
>possibly the most over-hyped metal of all time
>if titanium is so much as scratched with a piece of cadmium it embrittles the entire part to the point of uselessness

Titanium is in upper mid tier, has some strengths but some serious faults as well.

Hydrogen

Iron. Essential micronutrient, extremely common metal and industrially important. Excellent alloy potential for toughness and strength, able to absorb stress and strain elasticly without fatigue.

>aluminum
>fatigues easily even when alloyed
>literally solid rocket fuel
>mercury turns it into wet tissue paper

you can make metalic carbon but it exists only under a cooled and high pressure state.

>zinc cream is a powerful disinfectant with no biological activity on human cells
Truly the most bro-tier element

Potassium.

The best metal is clearly Titanium

Bismuth cause it doesn't give a fuck about how magnets work, it works around them.

COME AT ME BRO, O WAIT YOU CAN'T.

Dont forget it kills dandruffs

Best metal for what purpose?

Personally, I like stainless steel better for shaving.

Lead. It makes your kids special.

I laughed really hard at this and just now realized I'm a nerd.

>Osmium is blue, no contest it is better than iridium
It rusts in air and the rust does NOT form a passivation layer and in gets all over everything and makes your balls shrink. Enjoy your shrunken balls with your dirty blue rusty metal.

Every element wants to be iron.

"Iron, cold iron, is the master of them all."

Nickel should be the end point of all fusion in the universe, but Iron cheated and won by a cheap technicality.
Nickel is Able to Iron's Cain in the universe.

hardest and best metal

All of these soyboys up here in not saying iron? What is going on? Blacksmith here, the daddy of metallurgy, reminding you where it is at.
This is where men get their iron and steel from, pig iron and a strong arm.

Explain your last sentence please

It's from a fairy tale called "The Bible". Eldest sons inherited all the property and were the most favored by their parents, while younger brothers were servants or left. In this story, the eldest son Able was the rightful heir to his father's domain, but his little brother Cain brained him with a rock and stole it all.

Don't you have a bellows to pump?

Bible is a collection of sacred texts, not a fairy tale. I understand that you are angry with religion.

>supplementation increases testosterone

Zinc FTW. Also, additional Zinc intake can help you cum buckets.

aluminum prices are artificially higher.

rich fucks own warehouses full of aluminum ingots. then pay truckers to keep shuffling them between them. so that the metal is kept off the market and reduce supply.

The best metals are liquid metals even though mercury is poisonous. Its so cool itll kill you if you touch it.

Gallium

non toxic and melts on skin contact or on a warm day.

Caesium - most react alkaline earth metal
never found in pure form
fucking enormous atom with so many orbitals but not radioactive

/thread

Doom Metal

AND A SPOT OF TEA M8

CHEERIO

THIS

Carbon is best metal.

Prove me wrong.

Hint:Give up.

for me it is argon

This is 100% correct.

makes a quite good beverage too

argon-helium is best gangbang

Nah, Aluminum's pleb-tier. I personally can't decide between Uranum or Thorum.

I like you.