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slippy · Posted: Sat Mar 10, 2007 12:26 am Post subject: REAL Evidence of abilities

Look what I can do! Molecular Destabilisation resulting in metallic liquefaction at room temperature!

Okay, so I animated it in an hour, inspired after seeing AcidTwister's Mirror Twin Image!

I think it counts as limited edition fan art, non?

Also posted on my Live space

Erden · Posted: Sat Mar 10, 2007 1:21 am Post subject:

haha nice

AcidBurn133 · Posted: Sat Mar 10, 2007 8:07 am Post subject:

AcidTwister's Mirror Image? lol. I'm Burn, not Twister Wink

S'ok, though - great animation! How did you melt the spoon? lol.

slippy · Posted: Sat Mar 10, 2007 10:38 am Post subject:

Sorry, too many people with too-similar names for my poor old man's brain!

Hehe, why don't you have a guess at how I did it, and I'll tell you if you're right!

AcidBurn133 · Posted: Sat Mar 10, 2007 3:04 pm Post subject:

The silver looks a bit like paint once it's melted....

slippy · Posted: Sat Mar 10, 2007 6:02 pm Post subject:

That's probably just a chemical reaction between the destabilised silver and the polytetraflourethylene compounds in the plastic tub.

Or it was silver paint Smile

Ms. Slippy · Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2007 9:08 pm Post subject:

So that's where all the teaspoons went!

The_Blob · Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2007 5:12 pm Post subject:

Actually, you could do this in real-time with a item made of gallium [Ga (31)] a metal in the same family as aluminum.

It is the only metal, except for mercury, caesium, and rubidium, which can be liquid near room temperatures; this makes possible its use in high-temperature thermometers. It has one of the longest liquid ranges of any metal and has a low vapour pressure even at high temperatures.

Ultra-pure gallium has a silvery appearance, and the solid metal exhibits conchoidal fracture similar to glass. The metal expands on solidifying; therefore, it should not be stored in glass or metal containers, as they may break as the metal solidifies.

High-purity gallium is attacked only slowly by mineral acids. Gallium arsenide is capable of converting electricity directly into coherent light and gallium arsenide is a key component of LEDs (light emitting diodes).

Gallium is normally a byproduct of the manufacture of aluminium. The purification of bauxite by the Bayer process results in concentration of gallium in the alkaline solutions from an aluminium:gallum ratio from 5000 to 300. Electrolysis using a mercury electrode gives a further concentration and further electrolysis using a stainless steel cathode of the resulting sodium gallate affords liquid gallium metal.

Very pure gallium requires a number of further processes ending with zone refining to make very pure gallium metal.

Name: gallium
Symbol: Ga
Atomic number: 31
Atomic weight: 69.723 (1)
CAS Registry ID: 7440-55-3
Group number: 13
Group name: (none)
Period number: 4
Block: p-block

Standard state: solid at 298 K (but melts only slightly above this temperature)
Colour: silvery white
Classification: Metallic

slippy · Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2007 11:42 am Post subject:

Wow, The_Blob, you know your stuff!

Right, now can someone get me some gallium

And a VERY VERY COLD ROOM!!!! Smile

I could also have done it by pouring silver paint into a teaspoon shaped former, freezing it and then filming it melting.

But doing it stop-frame with tinfoil and silver paint was much easier!!!