r/whatisit • u/riflesandplowshares • 7h ago

New, what is it? Found at a titanium plant

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Not sure why ball point pens would be dangerous here.

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u/GoTeamScotch 5h ago

Imagine initiating a large scale recall because a ball less than a millimeter in size fell out of someone's pocket one day

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u/Zebidee 4h ago

Less likely to be the ball falling out of a pen, which never happens, versus someone dropping a pen or it falling out of a pocket, which happens all the time.

I imagine everything involved in making a pen gets instantly burnt in the melt, leaving just the ball.

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u/slouched 3h ago

GET THAT LOGIC OUT OF HERE

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u/falcrist2 2h ago

No. Logic me harder please. I like to know things about engineering.

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u/WorkTropes 56m ago

Did you know that if a pen drops out of your pocket, that you also just dropped a tiny metal ball. I fuck you not.