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Re: Platinum and gold

Posted: Thu Jun 22, 2017 8:29 am
by Hellatze
featherwinglove wrote:Uranium is a metal. It's missed a lot, but silicon is also a metal. The reason these often get missed is because in both cases, we usually see and use their rather non-metal-like oxides. Sodium is a metal, too, and I don't see as much confusion about it despite the fact that most of us encounter it in the form of table salt.
metal is matter of perspectives.

Re: Platinum and gold

Posted: Thu Jun 22, 2017 9:15 am
by makrom
featherwinglove wrote:It's missed a lot, but silicon is also a metal.
No it isn't.

Re: Platinum and gold

Posted: Thu Jun 22, 2017 9:17 am
by makrom
Hellatze wrote:metal is matter of perspectives.
How is that? You mean like out of the perspective of someone who never made it past 3rd grade?

Re: Platinum and gold

Posted: Thu Jun 22, 2017 9:53 am
by Muche
makrom wrote:
Hellatze wrote:metal is matter of perspectives.
How is that? You mean like out of the perspective of someone who never made it past 3rd grade?
My guess is they meant metal music.

Re: Platinum and gold

Posted: Thu Jun 22, 2017 11:12 am
by Hellatze
makrom wrote:
Hellatze wrote:metal is matter of perspectives.
How is that? You mean like out of the perspective of someone who never made it past 3rd grade?
How the hell silicon is a metal ?

You didn't define metal.

And copper could be metal too.

And you sir an asshole for insulting me.

Re: Platinum and gold

Posted: Thu Jun 22, 2017 11:17 am
by Loewchen
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