You can get these specific colors by heating the steel up. Getting these colors ruins the temper, though, and you'll have a pretty display sword that won't hold an edge. Perfectly fine if you never intend to seize the means of production, but I like to keep my steel properly hardened.
That's so cool! Do you have a gallery anywhere of your work?
I would love to get into jewelry design, metalsmithing, etc. It is such a satisfying way to work with your hands and science! Unfortunately as a hobby it requires actual property space not an apartment :,)
Would it be possible to coat it and color the coating like this without damaging the temper? Iirc aluminum you can do it with electricity (I don't know anything about this forgive me), so maybe aluminum coating and zap it?
Pesticide atrazine can turn male frogs into females
Atrazine, one of the world’s most widely used pesticides, wreaks havoc with the sex lives of adult male frogs, emasculating three-quarters of them and turning one in 10 into females, according to a new study by University of California, Berkeley, biologists.
The 75 percent that are chemically castrated are essentially “dead” because of their inability to reproduce in the wild, reports UC Berkeley’s Tyrone B. Hayes, professor of integrative biology.
I wouldn't consider frogs changing sex to be "gay" , so it's not exactly true.
But yes, the basis of the claim ("does something to frogs") is correct and arguably worth being worried about
He wasn't telling the truth at all, he just made up a bunch of lies that had the vary base kernel of truth that he could use for his psychotic narratives.
That's Jones' MO about everything, and you can hear him vamping and making shit up after he finishes cold reading a headline (or in the middle of it).
It's true that agricultural runoff was introducing chemicals to waterways causing frogs to change sex. The issue of pesticides washing off of farmland into waterways and having devastating effects is a very serious issue that needs a spotlight on it. Our "good" "friend" Alex Jones took this singular kernel of truth, discarded the entire ecosystem angle, and told his followers that the chemicals were being introduced deliberately to further the LGBTQ agenda.