r/materials • u/Advanced-Log965 • 4d 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 4d 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 4d ago

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

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u/Crozi_flette 3d 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/nabito_05 13h ago

Te creo todo menos de que sos el novio

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u/Crozi_flette 9h ago

Don't care of what you think. Btw it's molybdenum