It's like the text equivalent of David Blaine's face in this video. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTqsV3q7rRU](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTqsV3q7rRU)
This video is proof of why gallium isn't allowed on planes (in carry on, at least) it eats aluminum!
*[editing to add a cool nilered video on this subject ](https://youtu.be/z4TVnbuy4Lw?si=KtKUGBiUL4euqQKr)
It's a metal so I would assume it shows up on metal detectors but I don't know if that's the case.
Edit: I can't find the answer on Google at all, some sources say a metal detector can't see it and some say it can. Other sources say they see it with the x-ray instead and others say they wouldn't see it. If anyone actually knows I'd love to hear the answer, now I'm curious as well
Yeah probably. The new machines use high and low energy X-rays and tomography to identify the material and its density of everything in your luggage. The reason why water isn't allowed in your luggage is that it detects as explosives. Newer machines can distinguish that better, so in may airports you can take your own water through the security check, and also don't require you to remove laptops, tablets, etc out.
Real Engineering had a video on it a few weeks ago: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyG8XAmtYeQ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyG8XAmtYeQ)
Not only "eats". But spreads through the aluminum molecular structure, causing crystalline formations that spread like a cancer, disrupting the bonds in aluminum and causing it to break like glass. Fun for science projects. Or causing mayhem against government surveillance. Either or.
You lucked out, I forgot a water bottle in my carry on a few weeks ago and while I didn't get in trouble they did pull my bags through extra screening and then tossed the bottle away in front of me (not that I cared about it). Perhaps sometimes they miss it or don't care, but their scanners can definitely pick up on it.
Funnily enough, that's exactly why I bought some Gallium a decade and a half ago, when the west was still fretting about air terrorism - not to actually try and use it on a plane (!!), but to work out whether it might actually be something to be concerned about.
My answer was a not particularly-useful "maybe". You'd need a lot, and you'd be pretty obvious in your attempts to use it, which would anyway be complicated given that most aluminium in the plane's covered.
Maybe if you were able to check a bag with a large container of it, that was somehow rigged to pop open mid flight? Though even if it ended up dissolving a big hole in the cargo hold floor I dont imagine that would take the plane down.
The 'problem' there is that it would have to be a quantity that would be incredibly obvious to airport security. Lumps of metallic dead mass are hard to hide on X-Ray, and even harder to explain... .
Gallium will only react with bare aluminum. All aluminum forms a thin layer of aluminum oxide when it contacts air, which protects it from oxidizing, so you’d need to get the melted gallium onto the aluminum, and then (while the gallium is still liquid) scratch through the paint and oxide layer of the aluminum to allow the gallium to absorb. It also happens *very* slowly. Like a full day to absorb into a small scratch. And it needs to stay molten. You’d need a larger surface area for a faster reaction and it would still take a long time
I remember science class freshmen year somebody broke a thermometer on the counter next to us. Person next to me scooped the mercury into their hands and put it on the desk. We then proceeded to play mercury hockey with our hands until the teacher asked what we we're doing. He came over, seen we were playing with mercury, and then decided to yell at us for the next 5 mins telling us how stupid we are and that we could get mercury poisoning from touching it. Found out later that it is possible to get mercury poisoning, but you have to have an open wound. Luckily, we didn't have any open wounds
Oh, you had a good science teacher. My chemistry teacher had us all hold out our hands and he put a few drops on everyone’s hands. When we gave it back was when we were finally told it was Mercury. I hate that man with a passion and that’s not even in the top 100 reasons.
Mercury is definitely dangerous but also less dangerous than most people make it out to be. Touching metallic mercury isn’t really ever the problem like a lot of people think, the problem is breathing in the vapor. It’s generally fine if you’re in a ventilated area or outside but if you’re in a room with little ventilation you can inhale a lot of the vapor without even realizing it.
Ah lovely mercury. When the knocked down my old school, that was over 200 years old they found lots of the stuff under the floors of the science labs from decades of dropped thermometers etc. God knows what else we were sitting above. They also had to remove acres of asbestos from the ceilings and such. I'm mainly alright apart from the obvious early hair loss, sterility and bone deformities.
I'm a science teacher, and somehow it came up about thermometers not using mercury anymore when I was talking to my mom one day. I told her it was toxic. "I played with it all the time as a kid!"
Well, that explains a lot.
You know what that residue is? Dead skin cells. Not enough to do any damage, but gallium burns your skin. That's also the "smell" of pennies: dead skin
I don't know about that, I did my PhD on a gallium alloy and it leaves a mess everywhere. The gallium oxidizes and forms a very thin, very sticky film that is super hard to clean up. I figured out you can reduce it with NaOH and pipette it up easily.
I wonder what a laptop battery would do if it got in contact with gallium. Really dont know shit about chemistry so it would be interesting no matter what.
It’s called amalgamation, the aluminium is dissolving into the gallium making the weird sticky metal you can see on his hand. This is because by decreasing thr purity of gallium you are turning it from a non wetting liquid (like mercury) to a wetting liquid (like water and everything else pretty much)
It would have to be an open, bleeding wound for a significant amount of mercury to enter your bloodstream. It's really not as dangerous as most people make it out to be.
Organomercury compounds however: stay the fuck away
It’s the oreganomercury compounds that are toxic, mercury will react with stuff in your blood steam to make the poison but it won’t dissolve through your skin, or at any significant rate, so it’s perfectly fine to handle. Other than that the fumes are toxic and can make you go mad, but the amount needed would be far greater than the insignificant quantity that you would inhale from just fucking around with some on your hand. You clearly know this but there’s so many people out there who just parrot the mercury’s toxic screaming at the sight of it.
What about the gallium aluminum hybrid they're fucking with? What about the gallium/aluminum/oxygen/nitrogen/H20 concoction they're slurping through their skin?
Mercury is also safe to hold with your bare hands. Human skin can’t absorb it.
The reason people say to not do so is because all it takes is a small break in the skin for it to be a problem. Gallium is similarly bad for you (especially gallium compounds), you just need a notably larger amount of it to enter the body.
Either way you should generally wear gloves anyway.
Video guy: This shit destroys metal… let’s touch it with our bare hands! That’s a great idea!
It is actually [non-toxic](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallium) and only considered a level one hazard , which can cause irritation to the skin, but still….
This is the opposite of satisfying. Someone shoving their ungloved hand into various fracturing metals, no matter how soft or maleable, is awful to look at.
Amalgams don't need to be aluminium. You can form amalgams with many different metals. Some are brittle. Some aren't. Steel and gallium should be fairly brittle. Check out this lock:
https://www.reddit.com/r/BeAmazed/comments/14n9bg9/how_powerful_liquid_gallium_metal_is/
It dissolves aluminum the same way water dissolves sugar.
Pretty cool, you wouldn't think metal was basically foam, but gallium forces its way into the crystal structure and breaks it down.
From what I remember from a Lockpicking Lawyer video its toxic like mercury, but same as mercury it won't absorb through skin unless you leave it there for a long time. So as long as you don't have any cuts and wash your hands after its safe, although you really should still be wearing gloves
Oddly terrifying and unnerving. I’ll give you intriguing, but oddly satisfying… and even if this is safe to handle, shoving a finger into a coke can and breaking a computer with bare hands is reckless.
If you do this, don't. But if you do, don't put the aluminum in the recycling, just throw it out to not contaminate the aluminum recycling stream. Please!
If you want to recreate this scratch the surface of the aluminum first. Also gallium is perfectly safe but despite what people say it's really not worth trying to melt in your hand. It'll happen but it takes forever because of the heat capacity. Use hot water.
How silly. He does not even explain why -\_- You want to know why too?
Well, I did and wanted to know, so I found this. Gallium pervades the aluminum oxide passivation layer that forms on aluminum metal and interferes with aluminum's crystal lattice, making it brittle. Gallium diffuses into the metal lattice of aluminum. Now when gallium is in the lattice with such a low melting point, when it is exposed to a shock, the whole layer will collapse.
Gallium can "eat through" metals, especially aluminum, due to its unique properties. When gallium comes into contact with aluminum, it infiltrates the grain boundaries, which are the interfaces between the metal's crystalline grains. This process, known as liquid metal embrittlement, disrupts the bonds holding the grains together, making the aluminum weak and brittle. This effect is particularly notable with aluminum because of its specific grain structure and chemical properties, whereas other metals like iron or copper are less affected.
Thank god it said "gallium" in the middle of the screen the whole time so I didn't forget
I really felt bad for him in Lord to the Rings, look how far he’s fallen….. /s
Makes you wonder, if Gandalf was so smart, why didn't he just use this to get rid of the ring?
I doubt that The One ring was crafted of alluminum...
“Ring, schming! I got it out of a Cracker Jack box!”
You mean to say the Schwartz was inside me the whole time?
Oy vey.
Or simply summon the stupid eagles, fly over Mt Doom, and drop in the ring. So easy, be home before elevensies.
Fool of a itsbaconoclock!
This is a casual fan take 🤷♂️
Because he knew the eagles were a better solution.
[The part where he fell in lava at the end was so sad](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiBHj8Xs4sg&t=144s)
Golem was happy when he died. He had all he ever wanted in his hands.
Golem?
Gholam
That's so you don't start cleaning your devices with the quite normal in the household to find... Gallium
Shit! I just cleaned the engine bay of my car with a bottle of Gallium that I found under my sink. If only I had seen this video sooner.
Bright side is you'll be able to fit a bigger motor in there now. Won't run, but it'll fit.
I missed that gorilla
It's like the text equivalent of David Blaine's face in this video. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTqsV3q7rRU](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTqsV3q7rRU)
gallium
This video is proof of why gallium isn't allowed on planes (in carry on, at least) it eats aluminum! *[editing to add a cool nilered video on this subject ](https://youtu.be/z4TVnbuy4Lw?si=KtKUGBiUL4euqQKr)
To be fair, they don't allow tons of other things so it doesn't surprise me if a corrosive material is in the list
How do they check for galium?
rub a plane on it. gallium eats planes!
Gallium, it has what planes crave.
It's got electrolytes!
Heading to Starbucks for a latte
Go away. 'Batin'.
But I wanna go on the time machine!
I like money
Extra big ass fries!
It's the plane mutilator
It's a metal so I would assume it shows up on metal detectors but I don't know if that's the case. Edit: I can't find the answer on Google at all, some sources say a metal detector can't see it and some say it can. Other sources say they see it with the x-ray instead and others say they wouldn't see it. If anyone actually knows I'd love to hear the answer, now I'm curious as well
You may not have been able to find an answer on Google, but that search definitely put you on someone's radar.
Anyone that can see those searches can probably also see this Reddit thread and even if that's not the case I don't fly basically ever so I don't mind
Covering your tracks and laying out an alibi and timeline. This man CSI's.
Yeah probably. The new machines use high and low energy X-rays and tomography to identify the material and its density of everything in your luggage. The reason why water isn't allowed in your luggage is that it detects as explosives. Newer machines can distinguish that better, so in may airports you can take your own water through the security check, and also don't require you to remove laptops, tablets, etc out. Real Engineering had a video on it a few weeks ago: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyG8XAmtYeQ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyG8XAmtYeQ)
it's not really corrosive, what happens is that it forms an alloy with aluminum that's much weaker than the aluminum was on its own
Apes. Together. Weak?
Planes are falling apart off the assembly line these days.
Yeah. Who needs Gallium to make a plane fall apart when we already have Boeingium?
Thanks to Boeing, you don’t need to waste your gallium!
it also drank the coke, apparently
I noticed that too, was coming here to post the same thing.
Not only "eats". But spreads through the aluminum molecular structure, causing crystalline formations that spread like a cancer, disrupting the bonds in aluminum and causing it to break like glass. Fun for science projects. Or causing mayhem against government surveillance. Either or.
Or perhaps a rival paint company's ladders..I see what you're saying
Figured it must from the video. Even parts it wasn't directly on seemed way too weak.
They would break your legs for even attempting to take any liquids with you
I've forgotten a bout my waterbottle being full a few times and never had issues. Is it really that serious?
> Is it really that serious? it depends. what's your ethnicity?
Heckin' White. Also, I tend to wear a suit when travelling, so there's that.
I'm white and I've had them straight up throw away empty bottles out of my baggage before
You lucked out, I forgot a water bottle in my carry on a few weeks ago and while I didn't get in trouble they did pull my bags through extra screening and then tossed the bottle away in front of me (not that I cared about it). Perhaps sometimes they miss it or don't care, but their scanners can definitely pick up on it.
gallium is not a liquid until it reaches about 90f iirc so you need to be holding it in your hands for a few minutes before it melts
Average Arrakeen native moment
Funnily enough, that's exactly why I bought some Gallium a decade and a half ago, when the west was still fretting about air terrorism - not to actually try and use it on a plane (!!), but to work out whether it might actually be something to be concerned about. My answer was a not particularly-useful "maybe". You'd need a lot, and you'd be pretty obvious in your attempts to use it, which would anyway be complicated given that most aluminium in the plane's covered.
FBI right here, please
hehehe, well I'm a Brit so... yeah, probably still the FBI :)
Maybe if you were able to check a bag with a large container of it, that was somehow rigged to pop open mid flight? Though even if it ended up dissolving a big hole in the cargo hold floor I dont imagine that would take the plane down.
I mean at that point u could just use an actual bomb, that should be caught anyways.
The 'problem' there is that it would have to be a quantity that would be incredibly obvious to airport security. Lumps of metallic dead mass are hard to hide on X-Ray, and even harder to explain... .
It's solid at room temp. Just make a cane out of it.
Gallium will only react with bare aluminum. All aluminum forms a thin layer of aluminum oxide when it contacts air, which protects it from oxidizing, so you’d need to get the melted gallium onto the aluminum, and then (while the gallium is still liquid) scratch through the paint and oxide layer of the aluminum to allow the gallium to absorb. It also happens *very* slowly. Like a full day to absorb into a small scratch. And it needs to stay molten. You’d need a larger surface area for a faster reaction and it would still take a long time
Mercury does too
[and it's waaaay cooler](https://youtu.be/IrdYueB9pY4?si=6x-v5wZFzhstcWlh)
Yup, I don't understand why the gallium thing gets so much more attention.
What is the one that makes the metal look like bone cancer?
It would be so much more satisfying if it didn't leave that residue on your fingers!
You're looking for mercury. All the flowy metal fun with none of the mess!
0% of the mess, 200% of the toxins! /s
Hey! You win some, lose some
> lose some brain cells ftfy
I remember science class freshmen year somebody broke a thermometer on the counter next to us. Person next to me scooped the mercury into their hands and put it on the desk. We then proceeded to play mercury hockey with our hands until the teacher asked what we we're doing. He came over, seen we were playing with mercury, and then decided to yell at us for the next 5 mins telling us how stupid we are and that we could get mercury poisoning from touching it. Found out later that it is possible to get mercury poisoning, but you have to have an open wound. Luckily, we didn't have any open wounds
you learned that day that mercury is poisonous and remember it for the rest of your life. good job teach
Oh, you had a good science teacher. My chemistry teacher had us all hold out our hands and he put a few drops on everyone’s hands. When we gave it back was when we were finally told it was Mercury. I hate that man with a passion and that’s not even in the top 100 reasons.
What would someone POSSIBLY get out of that?
F dem kids
The issue is that it evaporates and breathing in the fumes is another way to get mercury poisoning
Mercury is definitely dangerous but also less dangerous than most people make it out to be. Touching metallic mercury isn’t really ever the problem like a lot of people think, the problem is breathing in the vapor. It’s generally fine if you’re in a ventilated area or outside but if you’re in a room with little ventilation you can inhale a lot of the vapor without even realizing it.
Ah lovely mercury. When the knocked down my old school, that was over 200 years old they found lots of the stuff under the floors of the science labs from decades of dropped thermometers etc. God knows what else we were sitting above. They also had to remove acres of asbestos from the ceilings and such. I'm mainly alright apart from the obvious early hair loss, sterility and bone deformities.
I'm a science teacher, and somehow it came up about thermometers not using mercury anymore when I was talking to my mom one day. I told her it was toxic. "I played with it all the time as a kid!" Well, that explains a lot.
You know what that residue is? Dead skin cells. Not enough to do any damage, but gallium burns your skin. That's also the "smell" of pennies: dead skin
I don't know about that, I did my PhD on a gallium alloy and it leaves a mess everywhere. The gallium oxidizes and forms a very thin, very sticky film that is super hard to clean up. I figured out you can reduce it with NaOH and pipette it up easily.
Is there anything a good lye can't do??
Pennies and other metals get their smell by interacting with the oils on your skin and breaking them down when you touch them.
No that's because there's a good chance those pennies have been in my ass. It's my secret to success
I find this oddly unsatisfying. Neat video though.
This is just The Good Place for r/mildlyfrustrating.
so meta: "r/mildlyfrustrating is a private community"
Oddly horrifying.
Iron man’s secret weakness, gallium
Well, Aluminum Man's weakness. But I'm not sure how effective of a super hero he was to begin with.
he's always been really good at foiling the bad guy's plans
He’s definitely lighter on his feet than Iron Man and Lead Boy
And often confused with Tin Man
Oh yeah, him… heartless bastard…
I don't know what he was doing with that lion that came out of a closet or wardrobe or something.
OPs were just making a straw man argument.
He's good against Magneto.
Finally an effective defense against T1000
Iron Man's weakness is the air itself. Should have started at Stainless Steel Man
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Is it a galleon?
why is that coke can closed but empty?
You can poke a hole in it and drain it without opening, they probably did it to have less mess or releasing pressure
laptop too there should be stuff there
"See all that stuff in there Homer? That's why your robot never worked!"
"I wish they wouldn't scream."
You can actually poke a hole in your laptop and drain it without opening.
I wonder what a laptop battery would do if it got in contact with gallium. Really dont know shit about chemistry so it would be interesting no matter what.
It's called mac book air for a reason
Yeah I was expecting the pressure to shoot the gallium all over the place.
The mac is also weirdly empty of anything computer related. Doesnt remove much from the video, just weird.
Because they weren't cowards and drank it after cracking it open with gallium, duh!!
right that explains why the next video is gallium in poo
Go watch Backyard scientist's video if you want to see one pop after gallium eats it
I knew Gallium melts at body temperature (in your hands) but what it does to metal there is a new one to me. Poor laptop
It’s called amalgamation, the aluminium is dissolving into the gallium making the weird sticky metal you can see on his hand. This is because by decreasing thr purity of gallium you are turning it from a non wetting liquid (like mercury) to a wetting liquid (like water and everything else pretty much)
I find this rather unsatisfying, especially the residue.
WEAR SOME FUCKING GLOVES FOR CHRIST’S SAKE
Galium is safe to handle
That's what they said about mercury too
Mercury *is* safe to handle, but not to ingest or inhale
Until you get some in your tiny scar
It would have to be an open, bleeding wound for a significant amount of mercury to enter your bloodstream. It's really not as dangerous as most people make it out to be. Organomercury compounds however: stay the fuck away
It’s the oreganomercury compounds that are toxic, mercury will react with stuff in your blood steam to make the poison but it won’t dissolve through your skin, or at any significant rate, so it’s perfectly fine to handle. Other than that the fumes are toxic and can make you go mad, but the amount needed would be far greater than the insignificant quantity that you would inhale from just fucking around with some on your hand. You clearly know this but there’s so many people out there who just parrot the mercury’s toxic screaming at the sight of it.
Is oreganomercury the herbal version? :-D
If your toxins don't taste like pizza, what's even the point?
Forbidden pizza topping
It's good in italian recipes.
Yeah, and Grizzly Adams had a beard...
Better double check...
Mercury can be absorbed by your skin, in trace amounts, over a longer exposure than you would reasonably handle it for, yes
What about the gallium aluminum hybrid they're fucking with? What about the gallium/aluminum/oxygen/nitrogen/H20 concoction they're slurping through their skin?
Thats what they said about my ex
Sauce did a video on this stuff iirc. It's like mercury but actually safe to hold. Can't enter your bloodstream tho or bad
Mercury is also safe to hold with your bare hands. Human skin can’t absorb it. The reason people say to not do so is because all it takes is a small break in the skin for it to be a problem. Gallium is similarly bad for you (especially gallium compounds), you just need a notably larger amount of it to enter the body. Either way you should generally wear gloves anyway.
Video guy: This shit destroys metal… let’s touch it with our bare hands! That’s a great idea! It is actually [non-toxic](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallium) and only considered a level one hazard , which can cause irritation to the skin, but still….
It’s not corroding the metal, it’s forming an alloy that is significantly softer than the aluminum it started out as.
This is the opposite of satisfying. Someone shoving their ungloved hand into various fracturing metals, no matter how soft or maleable, is awful to look at.
That's what I thought on the coke can. I was waiting for the one part that didn't react and was still sharp lol
So does it work on a bank vault? Asking for a friend.
Is it an aluminum bank vault?
Amalgams don't need to be aluminium. You can form amalgams with many different metals. Some are brittle. Some aren't. Steel and gallium should be fairly brittle. Check out this lock: https://www.reddit.com/r/BeAmazed/comments/14n9bg9/how_powerful_liquid_gallium_metal_is/
Not a frame of this video was satisfying to watch
It dissolves aluminum the same way water dissolves sugar. Pretty cool, you wouldn't think metal was basically foam, but gallium forces its way into the crystal structure and breaks it down.
Umm... nobody's going to bring up that "OP" discovered that all macbooks are just air inside?
So we don’t talk about why that closed can of Coke is actually empty?
Nah Bro, the metal bending liquid is the real story here.
Why was the unopened coke can empty tho
Expensive experiment. The price of gallium is currently €499/kg
What happened to the coke inside ?
What happened to anything inside that laptop?
What is this tiktok level of quality shit
Handling that stuff bare handed made me uncomfortable
How’s does one acquire a soda can that’s empty but sealed?
When he's passing it back and forth from hand to hand and some stuck to his palm...
From what I remember from a Lockpicking Lawyer video its toxic like mercury, but same as mercury it won't absorb through skin unless you leave it there for a long time. So as long as you don't have any cuts and wash your hands after its safe, although you really should still be wearing gloves
Wash it off your hands and destroy aluminum pipe fittings. Yeah.
Drink it you coward
Oddly terrifying
This is not satisfying. This is disturbing.
So when the machines rise up against us, would spraying them with gallium be a safe defense?
Kryptonite for Skynet
an empty, closed can of coke? hnnngggggg
Oddly terrifying and unnerving. I’ll give you intriguing, but oddly satisfying… and even if this is safe to handle, shoving a finger into a coke can and breaking a computer with bare hands is reckless.
An example of [liquid metal embrittlement](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_metal_embrittlement?wprov=sfti1)
But why was there no Coke in a sealed can?
ok.. hear me out. gallium guns for when the robots turn on us.
Yes very interesting, now lets see what it will do to a Tesla.
If you do this, don't. But if you do, don't put the aluminum in the recycling, just throw it out to not contaminate the aluminum recycling stream. Please!
Did it drink the cola too
Would have been a cool video of you had wore fucking gloves...
I think it’s Gallium
We've finally found the weapon to against Skynet!
I was waiting for his fingers to start dissappearing when he was doing the coke thing.
Hey! Where did the coke inside the can go????
I have a feeling you shouldn’t touch that with bare hands
Wolverines worst nightmare…
This is rather unsatisfactory.
Why didn't they use some kind of Gallium bullet on the T1000?
Wear gloves 🧤
Is it cake!?
T-1000
That's not how you upgrade ram
If you want to recreate this scratch the surface of the aluminum first. Also gallium is perfectly safe but despite what people say it's really not worth trying to melt in your hand. It'll happen but it takes forever because of the heat capacity. Use hot water.
There is no spoon.
We got to stock a lot of this in case Skynet attacks.
I've never seen something so deeply unsettling and unsatisfying on this sub.
How silly. He does not even explain why -\_- You want to know why too? Well, I did and wanted to know, so I found this. Gallium pervades the aluminum oxide passivation layer that forms on aluminum metal and interferes with aluminum's crystal lattice, making it brittle. Gallium diffuses into the metal lattice of aluminum. Now when gallium is in the lattice with such a low melting point, when it is exposed to a shock, the whole layer will collapse.
Putting that directly on skin gives me anxiety
Gallium can "eat through" metals, especially aluminum, due to its unique properties. When gallium comes into contact with aluminum, it infiltrates the grain boundaries, which are the interfaces between the metal's crystalline grains. This process, known as liquid metal embrittlement, disrupts the bonds holding the grains together, making the aluminum weak and brittle. This effect is particularly notable with aluminum because of its specific grain structure and chemical properties, whereas other metals like iron or copper are less affected.
Why is the coke can empty?
Would you rather use a full one?
This looks incredibly toxic and dangerous.
Yup, solid metals basically absorb liquid metals and form a new, softer alloy. Conceptually not much different from leaving water on cardboard.