Gallium Ruins Aluminum Bat

A gloved person drills and scrapes a hole in an aluminum baseball bat, applies gallium, and leaves it overnight. The bat becomes crusty and extremely brittle, ending with a damaged, useless barrel; the final reaction adds an absurd punchline to the failed experiment. The clip is accompanied by synthetic-sounding narration and music, making the destruction feel like a deadpan science demonstration. EN: A gloved person drills and scrapes a hole in an aluminum baseball bat, applies gallium, and leaves it overnight. The bat becomes crusty and extremely brittle, ending with a damaged, useless barrel; the final reaction adds an absurd punchline to the failed experiment. The clip is accompanied by synthetic-sounding narration and music, making the destruction feel like a deadpan science demonstration.

things up a bit and add some more glue. I then shot it all back in and this time I was a lot more careful with the scraping. But either way, I was basically done and all I had to do was wait. I ended up leaving it overnight but I took a time lapse and it was actually possible to see the gallium slowly creeping through the aluminum. I think most of it though had just fallen into the bat and only a small amount was actually getting into the aluminum. But anyway, it's now been sitting here for about 12 hours, and I don't need this piece anymore. I then ended up leaving the bat here for a few more hours, and when I came back to it, it was all crusty for some reason. When I tapped on it, though, it felt and sounded almost exactly the same as regular aluminum. It also felt pretty sturdy in general, however, it definitely had some issues. Everywhere that the gallium had infected had become extremely brittle, and it was now completely useless as a baseball bat.

• @pokupkabitka / 8460 2022-06-19