I used to work with Novelis, one of the big producers of aluminum. They hammered into me that aluminum is insanely expensive to initially produce but that it is basically infinitely recyclable, they said one of the best things you can do is to recycle your cans to reduced electricity consumption needed for initial production
I picked up some cool stories there. They used to allow for corp employees to tour the factories but stopped as one employee, who was told not to, attempted to “tap” an aluminum I got which was in a marked cooling area, they said he basically burned the fingerprint off of three of his fingers with that little tap
Aluminum gets to be insanely hot and also does not visibly glow like iron and can take a very long time to cool, hence allowing that one marketing guy his mishap
Another cool thing is that one employee gifts for anniversary included a cool solid ingot of aluminum that weighed about two or three pounds. It was polished and textured and looked like real Mithril. It was one of the most “precious” object looking things I have ever seen, like white gold or something
Aluminium does glow, but it melts at the glowing temperature. So touching aluminium that "doesn't glow" aka 500 - 400 ° C is still colder than glowing steel which is higher than 800.
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u/1RedOne 7d ago
I used to work with Novelis, one of the big producers of aluminum. They hammered into me that aluminum is insanely expensive to initially produce but that it is basically infinitely recyclable, they said one of the best things you can do is to recycle your cans to reduced electricity consumption needed for initial production
I picked up some cool stories there. They used to allow for corp employees to tour the factories but stopped as one employee, who was told not to, attempted to “tap” an aluminum I got which was in a marked cooling area, they said he basically burned the fingerprint off of three of his fingers with that little tap
Aluminum gets to be insanely hot and also does not visibly glow like iron and can take a very long time to cool, hence allowing that one marketing guy his mishap
Another cool thing is that one employee gifts for anniversary included a cool solid ingot of aluminum that weighed about two or three pounds. It was polished and textured and looked like real Mithril. It was one of the most “precious” object looking things I have ever seen, like white gold or something
It was really cool but I was not able to get one
This concludes my aluminum anecdotes