#ZINC

[arc-hus]

Moose Road House, Ukiah, United States - Mork-Ulnes Architects

[elementcattos]

Heard you like xkcd

OMG REAL OMGOMG

Megan & Cueball better be careful... and Beret Guy better WATCH OUT

and Black Hat is just being Black Hat

[g63heavenonearth]

Allegheny Cemetery 62415-37

[osmiumcattos]

We wanted to start a band

With Lithium(Li)

Platinum(Pt)

Zinc(Zn)

Copper(Cu)

And me

But we don't know how to call ourselves

We thought about Nirvanya but Li didn't like how we plagiarise her favorite group

(not canon, unless elementcattos says otherwise)

[mindblowingscience]

Genes responsible for antimicrobial resistance (AMR) can spread from microbe to microbe through circular genetic material called plasmids, and this lateral transfer occurs in the gut. In Applied and Environmental Microbiology, researchers in Iowa report that the transmission of some AMR plasmids may be inhibited by a readily available source—dietary zinc supplements. "This is the first time where we've discovered that zinc inhibits the process of plasmid transfer, and at lower concentrations it has minimal effect on bacteria," said microbiologist and senior author on the study Melha Mellata, Ph.D., at Iowa State University.

Continue Reading.

[ketrinadrawsalot]

Zinc and copper alloyed together make brass, a metal that humans have used since ancient times to make storage vessels, doorknobs, fancy ornaments, and musical instruments.

[materialsscienceandengineering]

New blue light-emitting lasers leverage low-toxicity colloidal quantum dots

Blue lasers, lasers that emit a light beam with a wavelength between 400 nm and 500 nm, are key components of various technologies, ranging from high-resolution displays to printers, medical imaging tools and data storage solutions. A key advantage of these lasers is that they generate coherent and intense light beams that can be leveraged to develop highly advanced optical technologies. One approach to developing blue lasers entails the use of colloidal quantum dots (CQDs). These are nanoscale semiconducting particles with unique optical properties associated with their size. Lasers based on these nanoscale particles could have notable advantages, including enhanced power-efficiency and tunability. Most quantum dot-based lasers developed so far utilized cadmium (Cd) particles that emit red light, while efforts to introduce similar blue light-emitting lasers were sparser.

Read more.

[jeanfrancoisrey]

Mini forêt…

[newts-and-sharks]

Doodle dump of the last few weeks

[neon-emojiz]

Nickel

copper

zinc

gallium

Germanium

arsenic

selenium

bromine

krypton

[mineralsrocksandfossiltalks]

Monday Musings: Copper Alloys

Alloys are typically a man-made mixture of metals and/or metals and metalloids or nonmetals. Alloys are often stronger, harder, more durable and more resistant to corrosion than the metals that make it up are on their own. They may even have a lower melting point which makes it easier to mold.

Copper has two major alloys: bronze and brass.

Bronze was discovered (possibly by accident) in the 4th millenium BC. The earliest alloys were copper-arsenic which, as you can imagine, is probably not a great thing to be making tools and tiles out of. While not dangerous as the alloy, the smelting process does give off dangerous arsenic fumes.

Today, bronze is about 88% copper and 12% tin but it can contain a small amount of aluminum, manganese, silicon, arsenic, phosphorus, or zinc.

Bronze has a reddish-brown metallic color. It is harder than copper and iron but can be brittle under extreme force.

Because it lacks iron it is resistant to corrosion by water and it is a great conductor because it contains so much copper. Bronze has a melting point of 950 degrees Celsius compared to the 1,085 degree melting point of copper (however tin only has a melting point of 231.9 degrees Celsius).

Bronze also has low friction.

Brass is an alloy of generally 66% copper and 34% zinc though it can also have small amounts aluminum, lead, silicon, arsenic, phosphorus, or manganese. It has a sort of golden metallic color.

Like bronze, brass has a high melting point of about 900-940 degrees Celsius (zinc is about 419 degrees Celsius).

Brass is more malleable than bronze or zinc allowing it to be shaped into more things. It is also resistant to corrosion, has low friction, and is a good conductor, but it is stiffer than copper making it more susceptible to stress-fracturing.

Fun fact, brass as some antibacterial properties.

Hope you had fun learning a little bit about copper alloys today. Tune in tomorrow for a little trivia! Fossilize you later!

[arc-hus]

House on Woodwarde Road, London - Proctor & Shaw

[elementcattos]

found out while talking about this blog in a discord server that 2 other people in said server have made designs for cattos so i drew us together (+ some others around the edges bc the scene felt empty) cobalt, zinc, and strontium

YIPPEEEE

Zinc though?? I think I designed him based on a suggestion but alright lol

[g63heavenonearth]

Allegheny Cemetery 11-6-14-10

[wanderingmind867]

I don't think we ever see these characters after this issue, but I really want to see them reintroduced into modern comics. Dr. Will Magnus's Substitute Metal Men: Silver, Cobalt, Zinc, Osmium, Gallium and Iridium. I'm going to choose to believe these characters are still important parts of the metal men mythos. But I'd want to add Copper and Bismuth too. Copper because it's the one Metal of Antiquity that isn't represented on the team (as wikipedia taught me), and Bismuth because it's just such a cool looking Metal. Rainbow coloured and all those strange geometric shapes...it deserves to be in these books. But yeah, the back-up Metal Men should come back and be a thing. Like the Metal Men version of the Legion of Substitute Heroes. (Metal Men #31):

[fromthedust]

Thierry Martenon (French, b.1967)

n°221114 - Frêne (Ash) - 1500 x 1500 mm

Erable et Ardoise (Maple and slate)

n°041205 - Erable et Zinc (Maple and zinc) - 550 x 340 x 100 mm

Frêne (Ash) - 1800 mm diameter

n°090806 - Erable (Maple) - 360 x 230 x 110 mm

n°101209 - Erable (Maple) - 360 x 220 x 150 mm

n°081216 - Epicéa (Spruce) - 2250 x 2250 x 80 mm

n°150614 - Frêne (Ash) - 2880 x 1520 mm

n°171217 - Epicéa (Spruce) - 1140 x 330 x 150 mm

n°170717, n°180717, n°190717, n°200717 - Noyer et laque (Walnut and lacquer) 280 x 345 x 90 mm, 240 x 310 x 90 mm, 540 x 310 x 90 mm, 360 x 250 x 90 mm

n°190717 - Noyer et laque (Walnut and lacquer) - 540 x 310 x 90 mm

n°200705 - Erable et Ardoise (Maple and slate) - 700 x 400 x 100 mm

n°220916 - Erable (Maple) - 1760 x 700 x 140 mm 1300 x 640 x 140 mm

Noyer et Ardoise (Walnut and slate)

Noyer et Acrylic (Walnut and acrylic)

Noyer et Ardoise (Walnut and slate)

en atelier (in workshop) - râpes et marteaux (rasps & hammers)

Thierry Martenon - travailler avec une râpe (working with rasp)

www.thierrymartenon.com