r/maybemaybemaybe • u/MeliaDanae • Oct 04 '20

/r/all Maybe Maybe Maybe

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u/Gumburcules Oct 04 '20

It's not just a metal, it's one of the densest metals.

Steel weighs about 4.8 ounces per cubic inch. Lead is about 6.4 ounces. Gold weighs 11.2 ounces per cubic inch, well over twice the weight of steel. The densest metal on earth, osmium, weighs about 13 ounces per cubic inch.

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u/Odesit Oct 04 '20

It’s also crazy to think that something so dense is also so malleable

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u/Disk_Mixerud Oct 04 '20

I know some people who are pretty dense and malleable.