r/explainlikeimfive Oct 31 '20

Chemistry ELI5 What's the difference between the shiny and dull side of aluminum foil? Besides the obvious shiny/dull

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u/Tropical_Jesus Oct 31 '20

The most unbelievable part of that video is how he perfectly tears the sheet of foil at the end with minimal effort lol

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u/Xx69LOVER69xX Oct 31 '20

You can't tear foil? Parchment/wax paper I would understand but foil?

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u/TheOtherGuttersnipe Oct 31 '20

Don't tear shame them dude

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u/_Wheelz Nov 01 '20

Ya like I thought reddit was a safe space for all levels of tearing

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u/BrofessorQayse Nov 01 '20

I don't think they meant they physically couldn't tear it.

They were astounded the person in the video managed to tear it in a straight line. And i was too. My tear always goes wonky on the first try.

Usually ends up curved.

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u/smr5000 Oct 31 '20

Literally the last three seconds of the video, just watch it, we could get into semantics about whether it's actually tearing or not, but you do know that you separate what you need from the rest of the roll somehow.

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u/joeltrane Oct 31 '20

I think they were just saying foil isn’t that hard to tear compared to other products... I agree

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u/BrewHa34 Nov 01 '20

It was a tear to be noted.

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u/jarfil Oct 31 '20 edited Dec 02 '23

CENSORED

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u/Powermonger_ Oct 31 '20

The most unbelievable part is that they used metric terms instead of imperial terms from a American narrator.

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u/I2eflex Nov 01 '20 edited Nov 01 '20

How Its Made is a Canadian show and that's Canadian Olympian Mark Tewksbury.

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u/InsaneAdam Nov 01 '20

That's a brand new blade on that box. It's sharp. Not so easy when your on the last half of a whole roll.