@nobodyisbest
It's 50 percent bismuth, 25 percent lead, 10 percent cadmium. That is one hell of an unhealthy concoction.
@AndrewButts-q2p
Zinc will also flash turn back to a solid. I worked at a Zinc platting factory. The zinc would harden before the splatter even hit you from the molten kennel
@Giyuus_bestie
I just love how Nile has an easy bake oven in his lab
@rpelzer
I believe it was a Columbo episode where a man was stabbed on a private jet wirh a knife made of wood's metal. Before they landed, the knife was dropped into a thermos of hot coffee to turn the murder weapon into a fishing sinker. Update: see below replies, it was actually an episode of Ellery Queen, not Columbo
@alden1132
"Wood's Metal! Melts in your bloodstream, not in your hand!"
@abs0lute-zer061
Quick search says it's Bismuth, Lead, tin, and cadmium. Yuck, but cool.
@Arcane_Eye
Learned about this metal in brief courtesy of Mistborn - Wood's Metal is an alloy involving cadmium to some relatively small percentage and is very not good to ingest. Another name for it? Bendalloy.
@TheItalianoAssassino
I love the random easy bake oven in the background 😂
@Trident_Gaming03
A chemist being confused is both funny and scary
@ErulianADRaghath
Get some Field's metal next, unlike Wood's metal, it contains neither lead nor cadmium, making it much safer to handle.
@westie430
I love this "Reggie's random mail for Nigel" series😊😂
@notkarma2984
Wood metal or Rose alloy, used for desoldering fragile components with large footprints(lots of legs). You add it on top of existing solder and mix together lowering overall melting point and adding thermal mass so solder stays molten longer, allowing to take off chips without needing heating fan.
@apinakapinastorba
Had a decent lump of woods metal as a kid. Was fun to play with it. Of course had no idea of it’s toxicity.
@scoutdogfsr
We use this in firearm chamber casting. Works well if the caliber is unknown or if you want the evaluate the chamber dimensions of a given arm.
@five-toedslothbear4051
Formerly and sometimes I guess still used in fire sprinkler heads. The idea of being that once the heat rises enough the metal melts, and opens the water source. these days, I think sprinkler heads use mostly glass bulbs filled with liquid.
@michaelm7299
it has a very high thermal conductivity as well as low melting point. As soon as it contacts a cooler environment it dissipates its heat
@HyperactiveNeuron
Otherwise known as a Lippowitz metal. I used to work with one called Cerrobend. It liquified around 70°C and I made molds of it in Styrofoam to shape gamma and electron beans for radiation therapy. It is composed of lead, tin, bismuth and cadmium.
@corneliusmcmuffin3256
Metals are great conductors so it makes sense it melts and solidifies really quickly
@AsekiBekovy
I like Field's alloy much more, expensive but lower melting point and not terribly toxic 😂
@heidicarlse6519