On Sun, Jan 15, 2006 at 03:04:41AM -0800, William Chops Westfield wrote:
> 
> On Jan 14, 2006, at 3:36 PM, Peter Todd wrote:
> 
> > If you really want it to last forever, make it out of indium.
> > That stuff just doesn't oxidise, better than gold in that
> > regard. Also expensive, very, very expensive...
> 
> I think you mean something else, perhaps iridium?  Indium is neat
> stuff, but it's very soft, oxidize moderately easily (Indium Tin
> Oxide is the transparent conductive electrode on most LCDs), and
> only about as expensive as silver (call it $1/gram.)  I've got a
> good quantity of indium from eBay that I've used to make room
> temperature liquid metals (with gallium.)

Yup, you're totally right, iridium it is.

By make room-temperature liquids you mean actually mass and mix the
constitute metals yourself?

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