Aluminum foil (2021)

Post by kragen » Tue, Jul 07, 2026, 6:26 AM UTC

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Let's see if this is a quantitatively plausible concern. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminium_chloride says orl-rat LD₅₀ of AlCl₃ is 380mg/kg, which is 20.2% aluminum by weight, so that's 77mg/kg of soluble aluminum ions. If this toxicity is due to soluble aluminum ions (rather than, say, acidity), and rats and humans are about equally sensitive to aluminum toxicity, you'd need about 3.8g of aluminum to kill a 50k…

How long does it take to leave the body?

Post by 4gotunameagain » Tue, Jul 07, 2026, 6:51 AM UTC

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Such as?

I have used it to repair torn foil of photographic umbrellas and softboxes, seal light leaks on a repaired darkroom enlarger head, make a reflective pattern for a photo shoot, add a temporary airtight seal on a cracked tube with just two thin layers of tape. The main issue with the foil tape I have is that it is both thin and very sticky so it can be a pickle to remove. Not really tested its conductivity yet but for…

Post by IshKebab » Tue, Jul 07, 2026, 9:34 AM UTC

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Read this guy's ramblings and give me one cool application that he has found. Lots of "maybe it could do this!" and "it can do !"

The trick to being a good hacker is acquiring a sufficient supply of useless information, such that when that information is suddenly not useless, you have it at hand. Which is to say, it's your job to figure out what the cool applications are.

Post by vessenes » Tue, Jul 07, 2026, 10:29 AM UTC

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Hi there! Thanks for the original post, and this sentence which exists in the same liminal space as the original post. Tell me more about the matter compiler as you imagine it?

You're welcome! It's a pretty broad term, with a lot of possibilities, but generally I mean a machine which, given a design for a machine in the form of digital data, can build a working machine of that design without further human interaction. Some imperfect approximations of the idea already exist: - living things such as bacteria, humans, and plants: DNA is digital, true, but it's an unsolved problem to design the…

Post by burnte » Tue, Jul 07, 2026, 1:43 PM UTC

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There's no risk to leeching, there's no data proving any link at all between Aluminum and Alzheimer's. I was a huge advocate for staying away from Aluminum cooking stuff for a long time and my mother even wound up with Alzheimer's. Simply put, I was wrong, there's no link.

> " There's no risk to leeching, there's no data proving any link at all between Aluminum and Alzheimer's. " EFSA (European Food Safety Authority) says acidic or salty foods can increase aluminum leaching from pans and foil into food: https://efsa.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.2903/j.efsa.... This review found mixed evidence and a positive meta-analysis signal for aluminum exposure and Alzheimer's: https://www.s…