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asmi:
I would also try making a hydroxide of that metal (Me + H2SO4 -> MeSO4, MeSO4 + NaOH -> Me(OH)n). Many of them have distinct colors and physical properties, which may help to identify the metal.

Refrigerator:
I put a piece of the metal on an old blade, gave it a bunch of heat with my butane burner and only when it got super hot did i see the slightest lick greenish/lime/cyan colour.
So it's between zinc and antimony.

T3sl4co1l:
Salts have poor solubility in ethanol so that doesn't say much.  Take a few grains and hold them in said flame; as they get orange hot, they should burst into green-blue flames.  Only zinc does this, the temperature and color being diagnostic.  (Cadmium is close, but has a different color, and its oxide is yellow.  Zinc oxide is yellow when hot, quickly turning snow-white on cooling.)

Tim

JohnnyMalaria:

--- Quote from: Refrigerator on May 05, 2021, 06:42:22 pm ---I put a piece of the metal on an old blade, gave it a bunch of heat with my butane burner and only when it got super hot did i see the slightest lick greenish/lime/cyan colour.
So it's between zinc and antimony.

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Make sure you run the control experiment with just the old blade :)

drussell:

--- Quote from: JohnnyMalaria on May 05, 2021, 06:57:31 pm ---
--- Quote from: Refrigerator on May 05, 2021, 06:42:22 pm ---I put a piece of the metal on an old blade, gave it a bunch of heat with my butane burner and only when it got super hot did i see the slightest lick greenish/lime/cyan colour.
So it's between zinc and antimony.

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Make sure you run the control experiment with just the old blade :)
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Haha, I was just thinking the same thing. :)

The look and SG of antimony and zinc are pretty close (what, 6.75 vs. 7?), but my personal guess is zinc.   :popcorn:

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