Adventures with Gallium:
Anyone who wants to have some fun with some “liquid metal” needs to get their hands on some Gallium!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallium
I wanted to make an awesome ring to show Steemians, and I even had some fun experiments planned! Anyone who has followed my blog for awhile knows about The Disaster of The Silver Egg:
https://steemit.com/food/@goldmatters/the-silver-egg-experiment-fail
What other experiments can I mess up?? It was time to find out. I got my hands on some Gallium, this incredible stuff that turns into a liquidity metal that you can play with, then freeze back and melt all over again.
This is what it looks like in its solid form:
I wanted to make a “silver” ring. Too impatient to wait for a mold... I improvised.
First I warmed up the Gallium:
I poured it in a bottle cap thinking this would create a ring.
The Gallium ended up just pooling into a weird blob. So I melted it back down:
The hair dryer worked much quicker:
I decided to try and make a mold after all. For some reason I thought I could do this with:
Using my 42% Not Gold ring (14k) I did make a mold, but the precision was completely lacking.
Undaunted, I forged forward with my Peanut Butter ring!
After filling the mold with melted Gallium, I stuck it in the freezer. After 20 minutes I took it back out and cleaned it off. I had to repeat this process serveral times, sticking it back in the freezer and taking it out and cleaning it over and over, I was worried I would melt the ring.
A strange obsessiveness started to come over me. Not sure why.
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After cleaning it over and over, I revealed this beauty:
While not the most chic design I have ever seen, I was quite proud of my Gallium silver ring!
I even showed it off next to my Menē 24 karat gold ring:
In the end, my Peanut Butter Gallium ring was returned to it’s orginal state. Though it broke my heart, I dipped it in some warm water and watched it melt away:
Be still my beating heart.
It ended up looking like this:
While I will call this experiment a partial fail, it was a total home run in terms of fun!
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That was hilarious. I must say that's the first thing I've ever seen cast in Peanut Butter. Keep up the good work!
Lol thanks, I had no idea what I was doing whatesover :)
I'd say you did a pretty good job. Maybe try making an ice mold for it. Might save you some time having to keep refreezing it.
Yeah what I should have really done is buy an actual ring mold, but that would have been too easy :)
I guess the butter is not viscous enough.
Mehn! Your adventure is extraordinary, this is the first time I am seeing this metal, last I saw it was in periodic table :)
It is a lot of fun to play with, I reccomend it!
Haha...I think that I could play with Gallium all weekend! That stuff is too cool!
I was counting on your to kick my ass and show me how this is done just like the Silver Egg :)
Nope, I have no Gallium experience lol. Your egg experiment was fun. I wouldn't have even considered doing it if I hadn't seen yours first!
A peanut butter mold? That's a first! What a strange element. A metal that melts in water. @ironshield
Lol this just proves I have not idea what I am doing sometimes :) not sure what i was thinking. It worked out only slightly better than the Silver Egg experiment :)
Love your experiments .Didn't know that stuff existed. Looks like lots of fun. think you should go train with Mene first though. You won't find peanut butter there.
Thank you! It was super fun :) next time i’ll get a real mold
Lol who does that? I like the twist the experiment took from warming up the gallium to adding up dye and peanut butter ( quite strange but fun) but what made this post exciting was that tho u fail to produce what u expected u enjoyed the process and thats true fullfillment.
Lol yeah it was a weird idea. If I had putty or something else it would have worked much better :)
Yeah but with weirdness comes new innovations, you'll never know the result until you try. You grow along the way. Enjoy yourself sir
What occurrences, a butter mold 😂😄
Lol exactly
Lol @luis26 😆
This experiment was the most fun I have ever seen. The mixture of gallium and peanut butter will be a permanent asset in all chemistry books.
Thanks! Yes, this should be taught in high schools for sure
That's something you don't see every day right there. Interesting to see there are methods for basic jewelry work that don't require fancy equipment haha. Peanut butter isn't too hard to obtain.
It was a lot of fun, next time I will actually try to have the right equipment on hand :)
Great experiment a stitch in time safes nine...gradually it will work perfectly. Kudos to you @goldmatters
Thank you :)
Silverfinger? 😎 sounds chick enough 👌
You're really having lots of fun with these elements!
It was a little chick, I admit
That so cool i did not know it's working like this thank you for sharing
Thanks for reading
Good good good good
Good
It would have been better if it could work..
Yeah
Superb experiment. Gallium's coin also looks beautiful.
Hey thanks!
Not really sure what this is
Your post is always different i follow your blog everytime , your post is so helpful . I always inspire of your post on my steem work . Thank you for sharing @goldmatters
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Thanks ! I try to mix it up
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hahahaha PEANUT BUTTER???? That happened because weed is legal in Cali, isn't it? haha jk!!!!
I know your mind is just naturally crazy! I love it
Ha ha no it happened because I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT IM DOING lol :)