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minus-squarexia@lemmy.sdf.orgOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·20 days agoPerhaps you meant to say that ices are crystals?
minus-squareCarrolade@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9arrow-down1·20 days agoNo. In astronomy, everything heavier than hydrogen or helium is referred to as metals. So, a star’s metallicity would be including carbon, oxygen etc.
minus-squarespittingimage@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·20 days agoIn my country we refer to gravel roads as metalled roads, for no reason I can explain.
minus-squareineffable@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up2·20 days agohttps://www.localsearch.com.au/guides/landscape-supplies/what-is-blue-metal “It’s called blue metal since it has a blue colour.” That explains the blue, but not the metal…
Ices are metals.
Perhaps you meant to say that ices are crystals?
No. In astronomy, everything heavier than hydrogen or helium is referred to as metals. So, a star’s metallicity would be including carbon, oxygen etc.
In my country we refer to gravel roads as metalled roads, for no reason I can explain.
https://www.localsearch.com.au/guides/landscape-supplies/what-is-blue-metal
“It’s called blue metal since it has a blue colour.”
That explains the blue, but not the metal…
Shrimps is bugs