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snooper2

(30,151 posts) Mon May 1, 2017, 09:10 AM May 2017

You Can MELT METAL In Your HAND!

video forced me to buy some off Amazon Daughter will love...

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You Can MELT METAL In Your HAND! (Original Post) snooper2 May 2017 OP

Old science science joke was to cast a teaspoon out of gallium alloy... hunter May 2017 #1

hunter

(38,303 posts)

1. Old science science joke was to cast a teaspoon out of gallium alloy...

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Mon May 1, 2017, 10:20 AM

May 2017

... that would melt at the temperature of hot coffee.

Sugar with that?

A peculiar property of gallium is that it spontaneously alloys with and severely weakens aluminum.

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