Adventures With Gallium + Making a Silver Ring + #partialfail

Adventures with Gallium:

Anyone who wants to have some fun with some “liquid metal” needs to get their hands on some Gallium!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallium

I wanted to make an awesome ring to show Steemians, and I even had some fun experiments planned! Anyone who has followed my blog for awhile knows about The Disaster of The Silver Egg:
@goldmatters/the-silver-egg-experiment-fail

What other experiments can I mess up?? It was time to find out. I got my hands on some Gallium, this incredible stuff that turns into a liquidity metal that you can play with, then freeze back and melt all over again.

This is what it looks like in its solid form:

I wanted to make a “silver” ring. Too impatient to wait for a mold... I improvised.

First I warmed up the Gallium:

I poured it in a bottle cap thinking this would create a ring.

#FAIL

The Gallium ended up just pooling into a weird blob. So I melted it back down:

The hair dryer worked much quicker:

I decided to try and make a mold after all. For some reason I thought I could do this with:

#FAIL

Using my 42% Not Gold ring (14k) I did make a mold, but the precision was completely lacking.

Undaunted, I forged forward with my Peanut Butter ring!

After filling the mold with melted Gallium, I stuck it in the freezer. After 20 minutes I took it back out and cleaned it off. I had to repeat this process serveral times, sticking it back in the freezer and taking it out and cleaning it over and over, I was worried I would melt the ring.

A strange obsessiveness started to come over me. Not sure why.

Google images

After cleaning it over and over, I revealed this beauty:

While not the most chic design I have ever seen, I was quite proud of my Gallium silver ring!

I even showed it off next to my Menē 24 karat gold ring:

In the end, my Peanut Butter Gallium ring was returned to it’s orginal state. Though it broke my heart, I dipped it in some warm water and watched it melt away:

Be still my beating heart.

It ended up looking like this:

While I will call this experiment a partial fail, it was a total home run in terms of fun!

Thanks for reading everyone,

Goldmatters or

Silverfinger

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