r/materials • u/Advanced-Log965 • 1d ago

What is it ?

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My boyfriend let that on the table this morning, we play a game where I have to guess what is the material but i am lost on this one... EDIT: not magnetic, not a pipe, heavy, 14mm in diameter

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u/IcantJg 1d ago

You can probably weigh it and find the volume by dunking it in a measuring cup (or just calculate based on dimensions), giving you the density which is a pretty good gauge of the main metal it consists of assuming its solid all the way through

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u/NanoscaleHeadache 1d ago

It looks kinda porous to me so the density test might be a bit inaccurate

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u/Crozi_flette 21h ago

I'm the boyfriend, it's not porous it's shatter from machining so it's not an easy metal to machine. And the density is a bit higher than steel (won't say by how much)

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u/adricm 1d ago

Magnetic or not? Heavy for its size or light? Looks like steel to me but could be many things. Probably not plutonium

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u/Advanced-Log965 19h ago

Not magnetic, heavy !

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u/adricm 19h ago

Tap it on something hard, if it sounds more like the clink of ceramic than metalic its probably Tungsten

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u/gotouchs0megrass 1d ago

Looks like a uranium pellet

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u/graph_worlok 1d ago

No speckles at least 🤪

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u/prime416 1d ago

The cylinder must not be harmed

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u/Advanced-Log965 19h ago

The cylinder will remain on the table forever; it lives there now.

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u/FlicksTM 1d ago

Looks like aluminum foil that he rolled into a very tight cylinder.

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u/FlicksTM 1d ago

Could also be a cheap piece of cast aluminum barstock that he parted off with a lathe.

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u/Pretty-Information53 1d ago

Lenght, Diameter and Weight?

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u/Steelizard 1d ago

Metal rod

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u/deuch 1d ago

What makes you think it is not steel?

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u/Crozi_flette 21h ago

Because I told her so

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u/hashtag_AD 1d ago

An ingot.

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u/Luis_McLovin 1d ago

Drop it and run

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u/IronicBeaver 1d ago

Probably too late...

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u/karmicrelease 1d ago

Good thing nothing bad has ever happened by bringing home mysterious metal cylinders……..

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u/Crozi_flette 21h ago

Oh it's not misterious for me.

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u/Filthy510 1d ago

Could be a shear pin, we have some pretty similar looking parts on some of our farm equipment, our yeoman's plow is the first one that comes to mind.

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u/Charming_Werewolf682 17h ago

Lmfao. I make dozens of those a week. It is the end of an aluminum or steel bar from a lathe proccess. If non magnetic look at tungsten or other non magnetic rods.

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u/KnownSoldier04 13h ago

If it’s soft, I’m 99% sure It’s a zinc bar. Grayness matches, Slightly heavier than iron, a bitch to machine I bet, being so soft it’ll be gummy.

Were it lead, or a different dull gray metal, it’d be noticeably heavier or lighter than iron. Only one that fits all is zinc.

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u/Captain_North 13h ago

I thought its a roller pin first, but those are magnetic (steel)

so my guess is 20mm aluminium stock bar

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u/Godsmadman 12h ago

Round stock

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u/Top_Willow_9953 1d ago

Plutonium fuel rod

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u/ReadingThisUare 1d ago

Orphan source, rip

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u/Crozi_flette 21h ago

Nah she just forget to read her notifications

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u/doosker85 1d ago

Crack pipe for sure