Re:Framework Laptop 16 Deep Dive – Enclosure
by G3rn0ti on Thursday June 22, 2023 @05:31PM
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Magnesium is lighter than Aluminum because it is in the 2nd group of the periodic system to the left of Aluminum residing in the 3rd. The latter has got one additional proton and a couple of neutrons more.
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Re:Framework Laptop 16 Deep Dive – Enclosure
by artimaeis on Thursday June 22, 2023 @06:38PM
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There’s more to it than their atomic weights. Magnesium (24 amu) is ~66% the density of aluminum (27 amu). As I understand it, the crystalline structure of aluminum is more “tightly packed” than that of magnesium.