When i sell my AL what I never want to hear is "thats Di cast " as my yard tells me to put it to mix .I guess if you have 100 # of the stuff you could get .20 cents lb . Still some Di cast gets past . Di cast is often a shiny metal found in use for decorative handles,low cost decorative trim around radios from the 1970's , being nonferrous some times it passes as AL - if you look close it has a mold line or words or symbols imprinted on the back side.
Bottom line the yards are not looking to pay .50 per # if possible.
Recently i had 3 thin plates used for awards to scribe names on they were square & would have been affixed to awards . When you held them though they were heavy and bendable. When i ask the yard man he simply called it Di cast , but I have found Di cast brittle & lite . I made a fire - put my cast iron kettle into the coals & waited to see what would happen with the award plates . They melted just like lead and after it dried it has the heft of lead . since i know these plates would be use on plaques or awards that people touch it cant be lead . Zinc melts like lead and has the same heft as lead . I have melted the classic Di cast and find it has little weight for its size. This thing I melted will easily pass as lead if mixed with lead in a bucket . I guess I have a idiosyncrasy that I want to know what metal I have some times . Sounds like Zinc to me ??
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Metal Melting Point
Centigrade Fahrenheit some of the metals listed are only in the first 2 sets of numbers Centigrade
copy and pasted from the NET
Admiralty Brass 900 - 940 1650 - 1720
Aluminum 660 1220
Aluminum Alloy 463 - 671 865 - 1240
Aluminum Bronze 600 - 655 1190 - 1215
Antimony 630 -1170
Babbitt 249 480
Beryllium 1285 -2345
Beryllium Copper 865 - 955 1587 - 1750
Bismuth 271.4 -520.5
Brass, Red 1000 1832
Brass, Yellow 930 1710
Cadmium 321 610
Cast Iron, gray 1175 - 1290 2150 - 2360
Chromium 1860 3380
Cobalt 1495 2723
Copper 1084 1983
Cupronickel 1170 - 1240 2140 - 2260
Gold, 24K Pure 1063 1945
Hastelloy C 1320 - 1350 2410 - 2460
Inconel 1390 - 1425 2540 - 2600
Incoloy 1390 - 1425 2540 - 2600
Iridium 2450 - 4440
Iron, Wrought 1482 - 1593 2700 - 2900
Iron, Gray Cast 1127 - 1204 2060 - 2200
Iron, Ductile 1149 - 2100
Lead 327.5 - 621
Magnesium 650 - 1200
Magnesium Alloy 349 - 649 660 - 1200
Manganese 1244 2271
Manganese bronze 865 - 890 1590 - 1630
Mercury -38.86 -37.95
Molybdenum 2620 4750
Monel 1300 - 1350 2370 - 2460
Nickel 1453 2647
Niobium (Columbium) 2470 4473
Osmium 3025 5477
Palladium 1555 2831
Phosphorus 44 111
Platinum 1770 3220
Plutonium 640 1180
Potassium 63.3 146
Red Brass 990 - 1025 1810 - 1880
Rhenium 3186 5767
Rhodium 1965 3569
Ruthenium 2482 4500
Selenium 217 423
Silicon 1411 2572
Silver, Coin 879 1615
Silver, Pure 961 1761
Silver, Sterling 893 1640
Sodium 97.83 208
Steel, Carbon 1425 - 1540 2600 - 2800
Steel, Stainless 1510 2750
Tantalum 2980 5400
Thorium 1750 3180
Tin 232 449.4
Titanium 1670 3040
Tungsten 3400 6150
Uranium 1132 2070
Vanadium 1900 3450
Yellow Brass 905 - 932 1660 - 1710
Zinc 419.5 787
Zirconium 1854 3369
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