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Recycled copper (lemmynsfw.com)
submitted 5 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Copper is so recyclable that stuff that was mined pre BC is being used today.

So what you're telling me is that when the copper head in my old 78 Volvo cracked when it blew the head gasket it was actually Ea-nāṣir's fault again? That son of a bitch.

Then a picture of a man pleading, with the caption

He can't keep getting away with it!

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 days ago (3 children)

I mean, being an element, why wouldn't it be? Isn't exactly going to decompose or decay

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Unlike iron, which oxidizes and flakes off to dust, possibly never to be mined again if it washes out to sea and sinks to the ocean floor

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

Unlike iron, which oxidizes and flakes off to dust

Copper's patina is oxidation and can flake off. It's what makes the statue of Liberty green.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

Purity and difficulty/cost in getting out recycling impurities vs raw ore impurities.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

I think the mind bend is the idea that the copper you're holding might have been unearthed thousands of years ago and processed for different usage many times over.