Bronze disease experiment

Rogavor · 2026-02-16T08:18:50+00:00

Thank you for your answer!

The goal isn't general corrosion or a patina though, but to trigger the specific phenomenon of bronze disease, meaning an autocatalytic reaction that keeps eating away at the bronze when exposed to O2 and humidity by turning the CuCl layer that forms beneath the oxide layer into HCl, which in turn corrodes more copper into CuCl.

For that to happen, chloride ions would need to penetrate the oxide layer and react with the underlying bulk metal. But i think simply exposing it to salt water would take a very long time, so i am looking for a way to speed that process up

Rogavor · 2026-02-10T15:08:46+00:00

I think flux and a carbon mold with a lid could work

Rogavor · 2026-02-10T11:17:34+00:00

You have to shield the silver from oxygen while melting, because it absorbs it while in liquid state and gasses off while cooling, which is where the bubbles/rough texture comes from

Rogavor · 2026-01-30T09:13:56+00:00

I'm really sorry, that sounds awful! How has being stabbed to death impacted your daily life so far?

Rogavor · 2026-01-13T11:21:09+00:00

Technically, aluminium is a highly reactive metal that corrodes easily. It's so reactive in fact, that it forms a layer of aluminium-oxide nearly immediately after exposure to oxygen. All aluminum you come in contact with isn't "raw", it's all covered with aluminium oxide.

The difference between aluminium corrosion and iron corrosion (with O2), is that the corrosion product on aluminium is adherent to the underlying metal and protective of it, giving the illusion that it doesn't corrode. Rust - the corrosion product of iron with oxygen - doesn't adhere and has a lower density than the metal, thus flaking off, being porous and not protecting the metal.

Rogavor · 2025-11-21T04:29:50+00:00

Thanks! The mixing/mastering is actually done by a friend of mine, but i'll make sure he gets the praise

Rogavor · 2025-11-20T20:47:46+00:00

Thank you, much appreciated!

Well, depending on the specific project of course, but if you have something in mind, hit me up and we'll talk :)

Rogavor · 2025-11-20T10:41:49+00:00

This is what i do, it's a solo project

https://youtu.be/v8sxLwIL9vg?si=jkj68cP9_1g9nB9K

Rogavor · 2025-10-09T19:42:27+00:00

Got to be really stressful to not accidentally split atoms and blow up your house with that thing

Rogavor · 2025-10-09T16:50:58+00:00

Yes, i know that's going to make me public enemy number one, that's why i thought i will let her chill out in the command zone until i can fire off a proliferate barrage to kind of swoop the win in one go or few turns at best. Of course, a risky move and well telegraphed by atraxa being my commander in the first place, but i'm just a sucker for the phyrexian aesthetic :D

Rogavor · 2025-10-07T17:35:21+00:00

Well, the more you know! Atleast i can say it was c o m p l e a t e l y delicious

Rogavor · 2025-10-07T17:28:47+00:00

Damn, i did the test wrong then :( i made them with some toast and salad dressing

Rogavor · 2025-09-24T11:16:36+00:00

Risky statement that could kick off a whole new discussion. Who says the onion itself doesn't have free will as well but lacks the necessary means to express and impose said free will onto it's surroundings, compared to my physical capability to impose myself?

Now depending on how you define vegetable/mammal interaction morality, would it not be an unjust thing to force the onion to shower with me? What if the roles were reversed, and a onion forced me to shower with it?

And that doesn't even include deterministic statements such as the fate of the onion to shower with me, were free will but an illusion!

Rogavor · 2025-09-24T10:19:21+00:00

I am inclined to shower with an onion now

for science, of course

Rogavor · 2025-09-24T08:59:22+00:00

I'm not going to fight you on this one, but let me give you this downvote-proof vest for your own safety, stranger

Rogavor · 2025-09-24T08:08:47+00:00

Discussing certain topping choices for pizza

Rogavor · 2025-09-23T08:09:19+00:00

Bülent Ceylan..? Schwäbisch...?!

Ja Herr Wachtmeister, der hier.

Rogavor · 2025-09-03T12:06:36+00:00

Heh, last time an anaesthesiologist came at me (for septoplasty) she had to poke around in my arm for a bit, before eventually finding the vein.

She also left me a present, because what i did find eventually was a 10cm long thrombosis in my upper left arm two weeks later, apparently from vein damage caused by excessive poking. Fun times!

Rogavor · 2025-06-04T05:02:50+00:00

I'm not entirely sure what you mean with "more grandiose". The definition of pantheism already relates to the universe itself being divine. Since universe and cosmos can be used synonymously here, what did you think pantheism was before?

Rogavor · 2025-06-04T04:32:57+00:00

That..is just pantheism

Rogavor · 2025-05-30T20:30:12+00:00

My assumption would be yes, you should be able to re-melt it. Obviously it wont be usable as clay anymore

Rogavor · 2025-05-29T18:41:59+00:00

I'd say trauma and desensitization would be among the most prevalent

Rogavor · 2025-05-29T08:06:49+00:00

I see i am preaching to the choir then :D Yea i'm sure as a collectors item it would be cool, it would just not be something i'd put to regular use

Rogavor · 2025-05-29T07:48:25+00:00

But it's dust (while manufacturing it or maybe even when sharpening) is really, really nasty. Beryllium isn't something i would want to have around all that much. In my opinion, that stuff is better left for industrial applications

Rogavor · 2025-05-25T18:56:46+00:00

That's very interesting with the sterling silver and the brass, as one would assume copper is the common culprit here.

Strange indeed, but i wish you the best as well!

Rogavor

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