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Deceptichum@quokk.au to A Comm for Historymemes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days ago

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Deceptichum@quokk.au to A Comm for Historymemes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days ago
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  • renzhexiangjiao@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    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

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      Japan out here naming metals like they’re Power Rangers

    • Ephera@lemmy.ml
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      Blade is my favorite color.

    • O_R_I_O_N@lemm.ee
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      What’s brass?

      • renzhexiangjiao@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        I couldn’t find any native japanese word for it, but there is 黄銅 (oudou) “yellow copper”, borrowed from chinese 黃銅

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      Cobalt:

      “Blue metal is lead? What the fuck?”

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

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.social
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    Pfft… Just leave copper out near the ocean and it turns green all by itself.

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    Aaand PPAP is now stuck in my head.

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