We can laugh at our ancestors who thought gunpowder was sorcery, or rappers who don't understand what magnets are. But we're telling you right now, there are materials created by science that absolutely look like fucking witchcraft. These materials are often hard to get and/or incredibly dangerous, but they're worth it for the cool factor alone.

6 Gallium, the Metal That Melts in Your Hand

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Sure, everybody knows there's such a thing as liquid metal (mercury, duh) and that all metal will melt if you get it hot enough. What you presumably have not run into is solid metal that will melt in your hand like ice cream. But all you need to do is find some gallium, the awesome metal that, when warmed up just a little, becomes a non-murderous version of Robert Patrick in Terminator 2.

Gallium melts at just past room temperature, so it isn't very useful for building anything, unless that thing is intended to be both short-lived and hilarious. But it can make for a neat party trick when you, for instance, stir hot liquid with a gallium spoon and watch it dissolve before your eyes.

Disappearing Spoons

There is no spoon.

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Wait, it gets weirder. For some reason, gallium doesn't play well with aluminum, by which we mean it reduces a Coke can to tissue paper:

Just dab a little drop on the top of a can ...

Nurd Rage

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... and it will make the entire area around it brittle. You can shove your finger through it ...