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[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (4 children)

meanwhile, Japanese:

white metal (shirogane) = silver

black metal (kurogane) = iron

red metal (akagane) = copper

yellow metal (kogane) = gold

blade metal (hagane) = steel

blue metal (aogane) = lead

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 weeks ago

Japan out here naming metals like they're Power Rangers

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago

Blade is my favorite color.

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

What's brass?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

I couldn't find any native japanese word for it, but there is 黄銅 (oudou) "yellow copper", borrowed from chinese 黃銅

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Cobalt:

"Blue metal is lead? What the fuck?"

Also, what're Aluminum, Platinum, Gallium, Mercury, Tungsten, Titanium, and Bismuth?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

Aaand PPAP is now stuck in my head.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Pfft... Just leave copper out near the ocean and it turns green all by itself.