Post by (Org) Tadbite♂ - 🥄 on Jun 23, 2021 6:51:33 GMT
So you know how pyrite looks like gold though if you try to pick it out of the coal it's normally found in it explodes?
Well basically we did the same thing with Yttrium.
Yttrium is one of the most abundant substances on the planet on about the same levels as copper or gold.
It's a metal within the family of 'docile' solid elements.
These docile metals don't really do much other than adding a bit of strength to alloys hence the name.
Yttrium is the most docile of all the elements in its group because it has the ability to absorb huge amount of electromagnetic radiation, i.e. light, heat, microwaves, nuclear radiation, and convert it to electric current.
For that reason Yttrium has been used in nuclear reactors, microwave ovens, sunglasses and home insulation systems as a way to shield from heat and radiation.
If you put an electric charge through it however, the act reverse happens.
The Yttrium spews out huge amounts of heat in all directions causing an explosion.
We use this power to make laser beams by blocking off the light from the every other direction than the one we want to focus on.
Imagine the power of a laser beam though in all directions at once, not a little thin beam.
Unfortunately this has lead to the manufacture of deadly exploding sunglasses which have since been taken off the market.
The microwave dampeners in microwave ovens used to be made of this until it was found that a simple trip in the circuit breaker could cause enough feedback to detonate an entire kitchen.
These dampeners look like gemstones and technically they are though they're made of a common element that's easy to manufacture so they're worthless.
though this hasn't stopped dodgy jewelers from getting the dampeners and crafting them into jewelry to sell.
The obvious problem is that should the jewelry be exposed to an electrical current it make a flesh of heat like a laserbeam in all directions burning everything the light touches.
Solar panels, at least thte ones we have at the moment, are made of yttrium, which means that given a short circuit they can essentially turn into a powerful heat lamp instead which, depending on where they are fixed to, could start a housefire.
Yttrium has been seen as the wonder solution to nuclear power and is used to neutralise nuclear reactions however something as simple as a little static electricity could cause the yttrium itself to go into meltdown destroying the nuclear reactor.
So far the most pressing threat is people trying to tamper with microwave ovens and blowing themselves up.
The paper covering on the inside of the microwave decays after years of splashed food softening it and it falls away to reveal a cut gemstone sitting in your microwave.
You think wow someone must have been using this oven to sneak gemstones across the border or something and try to pry it out with something metal.
Next thing a spark powers the yttrium and the kitchen explodes and the house burns down.
It's happened way too many times now.
Well basically we did the same thing with Yttrium.
Yttrium is one of the most abundant substances on the planet on about the same levels as copper or gold.
It's a metal within the family of 'docile' solid elements.
These docile metals don't really do much other than adding a bit of strength to alloys hence the name.
Yttrium is the most docile of all the elements in its group because it has the ability to absorb huge amount of electromagnetic radiation, i.e. light, heat, microwaves, nuclear radiation, and convert it to electric current.
For that reason Yttrium has been used in nuclear reactors, microwave ovens, sunglasses and home insulation systems as a way to shield from heat and radiation.
If you put an electric charge through it however, the act reverse happens.
The Yttrium spews out huge amounts of heat in all directions causing an explosion.
We use this power to make laser beams by blocking off the light from the every other direction than the one we want to focus on.
Imagine the power of a laser beam though in all directions at once, not a little thin beam.
Unfortunately this has lead to the manufacture of deadly exploding sunglasses which have since been taken off the market.
The microwave dampeners in microwave ovens used to be made of this until it was found that a simple trip in the circuit breaker could cause enough feedback to detonate an entire kitchen.
These dampeners look like gemstones and technically they are though they're made of a common element that's easy to manufacture so they're worthless.
by the way Yttrium looks like this...
though this hasn't stopped dodgy jewelers from getting the dampeners and crafting them into jewelry to sell.
The obvious problem is that should the jewelry be exposed to an electrical current it make a flesh of heat like a laserbeam in all directions burning everything the light touches.
Solar panels, at least thte ones we have at the moment, are made of yttrium, which means that given a short circuit they can essentially turn into a powerful heat lamp instead which, depending on where they are fixed to, could start a housefire.
Yttrium has been seen as the wonder solution to nuclear power and is used to neutralise nuclear reactions however something as simple as a little static electricity could cause the yttrium itself to go into meltdown destroying the nuclear reactor.
So far the most pressing threat is people trying to tamper with microwave ovens and blowing themselves up.
The paper covering on the inside of the microwave decays after years of splashed food softening it and it falls away to reveal a cut gemstone sitting in your microwave.
You think wow someone must have been using this oven to sneak gemstones across the border or something and try to pry it out with something metal.
Next thing a spark powers the yttrium and the kitchen explodes and the house burns down.
It's happened way too many times now.