Metal ID Quiz - Page 2

I am chromium. harrisvh, you should be banned from general knowledge metal quizes! Well done freonjoe and everyone else

Oops, wrong side of the periodic table

sweet! actually was going to guess it from the first clue!! what do I win??

Umm, a scrap bolt? Or a metal tip from a shoe?

what is made of chromium sorry for my ignorance? THat is so abundant

Just for general knowledge, on a scale of 1-10, chromium has a hardness of about 9. Stainless steel is about 6.

Even though thousands of tons of chromium are mined each year, it is not transported as a metal, it is transported as a chromic acid, then used to elctroplate other metals. It is rare to find a solid lump of chromium, although you can find it plated onto car bumpers and grilles, and in a lot of the hand tools you use every day.

A bit of fun, and just for the record, I'm definately not a tranny

Chromium

I think nothing, but a virtual pat on the back

Originally Posted by harrisvh

what do I win??

A chromium star, of course. They are cheaper than gold, but they are very twinkly.

Originally Posted by mikeinreco

what is made of chromium sorry for my ignorance? THat is so abundant

It's mainly used for plating other metals and in the production of stainless steel. If you scrap 18/8 stainless, the 18 refers to 18% chromium, and the 8 as 8% nickel. 18/10 is the same amount of chromium, but 10% nickel.

That almost sounds like someone I work with.

Stainless steel????/

Tit-tit-titanium.

Sorry, I stutter...