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A Brief Visual History Of Metals
We have documented the history if individual metals before and we have also visualized their annual production. However, we have not seen all of the metals on one timeline before such as in this infographic.
Worth noting is gold’s prominence ever since the beginning of history. Because the yellow metal is one of the rare elements that can be found in native form (such as nuggets), it was used by the earliest of our ancestors.
Comparatively, it is only recently that the technology has advanced to allow us to discover or extract the rest of the metals on today’s periodic table. For example, even though we knew of titanium as early as 1791, it was relatively useless all the way up until the 1940?s because of its metallurgy. In the 20th century, scientists advanced a way to remove the impurities, making it possible to get the strong and hard titanium we know today.
Another standout fact is that it took all the way until the early 19th century for two very important elements to be discovered. Both are not found free in nature very often and thus slipped detection for many centuries. Silicon, which actually makes up 26% of the earth’s crust, was discovered in 1823. Then in 1827, aluminum was discovered – we now know today that it is the most common metal in the earth’s crust (it’s actually 1200X more abundant than copper).
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The Annanuki were the first ones on this planet that had any idea about gold and taught the locals. The locals held on to the tradition and have since killed each other unmercifully for it, ever since. What the locals on Earth do not understand is when we come back to get the rest of our gold, we're gonna be really pissed when all you little fuckers can't make good LBMA delivery like y'all fuckin' promised and we gotta start prizing it from small children's fillings and the like. You Earthlings are really disgusting dirty creatures. No, dickhead, that "nugget" is not good delivery. No, nor is a full pile of them. No, I don't care whether they're fresh and steamy. Where the fuck's my Gold!
knuckles...are you alright?
Thriving, Captain, thriving, sir.
Ahhh, so it's all 1783's fault. Well that and 1913.
Gold is a strong insulator against solar radiation.
Astronauts visor's are coated with a thin layer (few microns thick).
Gold is cheap in consideration of its uses and the EPSON toner recycling habits of Benny and Janet.
I just hope tungsten works too.
Agenda 21 land grab? Obama Designates San Gabriel Mountains National Monument
http://wtfrly.com/2014/10/10/agenda-21-land-grab-obama-designates-san-ga...
1746... American Revolution.
Fuck yeah, we're exceptional!
Yeah, just ask the Igigi what the Annanuki did to them when they fucked up their irrigation canal project.
Indium is found twice according to the image above and aluminium share second place of most plentiful metal together with nickel.
Iridium vs indium?
Aluminum is abundant in the planet's thin crust while iron and nickel are found throughout the mantle and core.
Mucho truthiness there, knuks.
Ever read Steinbeck's classic, The Pearl?
I'm waiting for your links to sources of evidence to substantiate your claim
Please exclude all mainstream science and alternative sources such as zeta talk, project scamelot and the purple and turquoise reptilian David Eich
I know where there is a stash on the bottom of a cold, dead lake next to an old, sunken boat of mine. If you really want it, I'll help you get there. No further promises, however.
Don't meddle with metal.
Bogus list.
I don't see Hopium listed anywhere.
Unobtainium is missing also.
Introduced in 2008.
Depleted in 2009.
Hopium is an inert gas.
The noble gases are relatively nonreactive. This is because they have a complete valence shell. They have little tendency to gain or lose electrons. The noble gases have high ionization energies and negligible electronegativities. The noble gases have low boiling points and are all gases at room temperature.
Sounds like congress.
Hopium is a gas most commonly seen in a black gasbag around golf courses...much in the same way methane is seen around swamps and others areas with decomposing materials.
Inert hot air which refuse to mix with others. I think you may be right.
What about Freemarketum? Or is that just some theoretical element?
Freemarketum is an unstable isotope that quickly decays into the more stable Fascisium. What was once thought to be totally different elements - Monarchium, Democracium, Republicum, Anarchium, Communisium, Socialisium, and more - have now been proven to be unstable isotopes that always decay back into Fascisium.
The confusion arises due to the ability of Fascisium to exhibit the characteristics of its less stable isotopes for such a high percentage of the time. But upon closer examination, scientists have always managed to tease out the the underlying properties that prove that they were really looking at an isotope of Fascisium.
With new tunnelling electron microscope technology, scientists were able to burrow through the cloud of morons to uncover a nucleus of propagandons neatly embedded in a matrix of subatomic particles known as guardons, murderons and goonons.
Some scientists claim such distinctions are irrelevant and there are only propagandons and MICons. Other scientists insist further subdivision is informative - Congressons, Lobbyons, Banksterons, DHSons, CIAons, TSAons, FBIons etc while the former scientists point out that those lesser particles are infinitely divisible, may be temporary in nature and all essentially contribute to the same macro-properties of the nucleus.
The latter scientists believe that the "infinite" subdivision of the sub-nuclei particles is not infinite and after the formation of a critical number of separate types of MICons, the Fascisium atom spontaneously fissures into several Anarchium isotopes that then gradually decay back into the other isotopes, briefly being recognizable as "stable" Fascisium between each transition.
For his pioneering effort in this field, Radical Marijuana was nominated for a Nobel Prize in Physics, but was turned down as some of the judges insisted that they had exactly the same idea just five minutes before he published his thesis.
Hard to believe that even "modern" elements were discovered so long ago.
1557 AD was a good year to BTFD or BTFATH on Platinum. Although 1250 AD was a good year also to add Arsenic to food and drinks for Money Changers.
1783 AD was great for coating Tungsten with Gold, and have it replace gold bricks -- given that they could not tell the difference on the weight and volume tests.
1898 would have been a great year to buy Polonium from Mme. & Monsieur Curie (its discoverers), and invite Banksters to cocktail parties. Another special round for Big 10, the Shareholders of the soon-to-be Federal Reserve, if you please.
All occupants of that 'Traincar named Desire'.
(Apologies to Tennessee Williams)
Platinum's my favourite. In Tzar Russia they made buckets out of it. To them it was just some compound that didn't rust. What better use for it than transporting water? Aluminum on the other hand was worth more than gold for about a decade after its discovery. It also didn't rust, but in addtion was strong, lite, pretty to look at, as it did not fade through oxidation, and it was rare initially - at first sight, superior to gold, silver and platinum.
These days gold has many more uses than in the past. Its electrical conductivity was irrelevant prior to discovery of electricity. Also, very few cared about it being useful in satellite components before the age of space exploration. With all other compounds that were classified in modern times it only became more apparent that nothing could match gold's physical properties and practicality.
In addition to the structural and monetary uses of metals, let's not forget about magnetism and electrical conductivity, without which modern industrial society could not function. In addition, there are twenty dietary elements that are necessary for life as we know it, many of which are metals. Coordinated metal-ion complexes in heterocyclic carbon rings make up chlorophyll, the starting point for the synthesis of all biological material, and also the heme groups which transport oxygen around in mammalian blood.
Metals are shiny because their diffused cloud of easily disassociated d- and f-shell electrons will only allow the transition of photons of certain energy levels, and most of these levels correspond to ultraviolet or shorter wavelengths on the electromagnetic spectrum. Gold and copper admit of a small overlap into the red end of the visible spectrum, which gives them their yellowish-red hue.
It is these loosely held electrons which make metals such excellent electrical and thermal conductors. Like a Newton's Cradle, they easily transmit energy throughout the material.
There is something deep in the blood that responds to the sight of freshly smelted metal, almost as if we instinctively realize that it is the archetypical symbol of wealth and power. Culturally and physically, metal is some pretty cool stuff.
Human body has a small percentage of gold in it. We are bio-electical machines. Perhaps our nervous system is inherently familiar with importance of highly conductive and chemicaly stable elements.
So what is the melt value of a human minus gold fillings and caps?
$0.0079 USD
0.2mg Au at $39.33/g
http://www.gold-traders.co.uk/gold-information/how-much-gold-is-found-in...
Even with oil down at $85/barrel it doesn't seem economically feasible.
Unless you deal in bulk, of course.
Pure poetry, GSM!
so that's why I prefer the taste of human blood with high iron content, it's that metallic twang that gets me going
I couldn't suck down an iron bar so I make do with human blood instead
Who needs metals ?
Or materials , for that matter .
http://andreswhy.blogspot.com/2014/04/a-real-light-saber.html
http://andreswhy.blogspot.com/2014/04/make-your-own-graphene_1584.html
Why did the chart end so soon. Shouldn't there be an image for 2014 of gold in the crapper?
I would imagine the propaganda machine that's been built is made only of the finest alloys and lubricants... So yeah, everyone will continue to flush their rare earth elements down the shitter and use paper currencies to measure their wealthiness for the time being.
or the discovery in 2004 of paper gold! that really changed the course of history. Oh the many uses...
I don't imagine a multi-thousand year chart would care much about a drop after a comparatively large rise.
But I won't live a multi-thousand years.
Tom Lehrer explains it best.
http://www.privatehand.com/flash/elements.html
Paper is Vapor - Settle in Metal. perrecious that is....
And now as civilization falls, gold will also be the last to go.
THis is the Jadao-Christian timeline.......histiry predates this fairytale of BS that is pepertarated by the illusory religions.
Believe this at your peril peasantz !!
ps...buy physical and keep it in your ass.....but the time it ruptures and is bleeding out you wont care if your gold is lost.
Silicon is not a metal
It's a metalloid; close enough for this type of presentation.
What Greek said.
Silicon is a metalloid. So, technically it has metal and non-metal properties.
Silicon metal properties are essential to its most prevalent use in semi-conductors. Under the influence of an EM field Silicon will switch to conduction which is a metal property.
What element and metal is "Federal Reserve?!"
An American, not US subject.
Note: A clue as to what your "money" really is -- http://econintersect.com/b2evolution/blog2.php/2012/03/11/money-and-debt...
One interesting fact of gold is that it is unique for a heavier element in that it has no long half life isotopes. So if gold is exposed to nuclear bombardment, its isotopes are short lived.
That and it's not poisonous like lead or mercury and other heavy metals.
lol! the first moowalk ...