Tinfoil

[Harry Henderson]

Sn (Tin) has been replaced by Al (Aluminum) due to various reason such as taste factor and flexibility. This happened early in the 20th century.

My assertion is that this section should be called Aluminum Foil Hat section.

[swampbilly]

Sn (Tin) has been replaced by Al (Aluminum) due to various reason such as taste factor and flexibility. This happened early in the 20th century.

My assertion is that this section should be called Aluminum Foil Hat section.

Steel still rules

[Harry Henderson]

Which steel?

There are two major schools of thought about steel. One is a grade point of impurities where better terminal contents result in a better steel. The second is that steel type is more about structural response to stress and proper forging and heat treatment result in the better characteristics.

Lest we verge on the debate about damascus and it's honest inception as a crap steel from scrounged metals.

[swampbilly]

steel curtain

[gamgee]

Funny how groups of fish, and thoughts, are both called schools.

[dudeman]

Lead is where its at. You never hear of a steel lined reactor. They use lead for a reason.

ETA: Lead could also be hammered into a thin foil. A lead foil hat would shield better than tin or aluminum.

[Absolutely!]

Sn (Tin) has been replaced by Al (Aluminum) due to various reason such as taste factor and flexibility. This happened early in the 20th century.

My assertion is that this section should be called Aluminum Foil Hat section.

given that the discovery of Aluminium from the salt Alum was made by an Englishman (Sir Humphrey Davey in 1807). He at the time named it Alumium, which was later changed to Aluminium.

It was only when youse yanks got your hands on it, with your vowel thieving ways (color, airplane, molt) and immediately attempted to steal the i, that anybody anywhere tried to call it Aluminum. (Aloominum instead of Aloominny-um).

so if that foil's going to have its name changed, it had better be to Aluminium. Although I will permit Alumium foil if you wish to be a true purist about it.

[Absolutely!]

while we're about it, it fascinates me that whilst you are stealing syllables from some words, you are tacking them onto others.

Eg burglarization, sewerage, instead of burglary and sewage. "I've been burglarized" you mangle. "No, you've been burgled" replies the rest of the english speaking world. Is someone who burgles you a burglarizer?

No. Don't answer that. I couldn't cope.

rofl

[mattmuttsmith]

Black lives matter.

Tin was racist.

[rover]

I think we should change it to Lemmium foil.

[Harry Henderson]

while we're about it, it fascinates me that whilst you are stealing syllables from some words, you are tacking them onto others.

Eg burglarization, sewerage, instead of burglary and sewage. "I've been burglarized" you mangle. "No, you've been burgled" replies the rest of the english speaking world. Is someone who burgles you a burglarizer?

No. Don't answer that. I couldn't cope.

rofl

Depends on the education of the user. I've never heard anything by sewage, which comes from a sewer. And burgled is the proper past tense. Actually most laymen say robbed, which is the incorrect act all together. I think you are finding reasons to hate us because we thefted European words when we spit on the English ruler.

History is written by the victors.

[Unclefred]

Depends on the education of the user. I've never heard anything by sewage, which comes from a sewer. And burgled is the proper past tense. Actually most laymen say robbed, which is the incorrect act all together. I think you are finding reasons to hate us because we thefted European words when we spit on the English ruler.

History is written by the victors.

And nobody had the balls to tell him he had spit in his hair and drpping from his chin. No wonder he went mad.

[Harry Henderson]

And then he took their guns away.

[Unclefred]

But they still have their tea.

[swampbilly]

green zip tea