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Watch what happens when an iPhone drowns in molten aluminum

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This isn't your normal stress test.
This isn't your normal stress test.
Photo: The Backyard Scientist

Apple’s iPhone empire has been made possible thanks to the magic of aluminum. But under certain circumstances, Jony Ive’s favorite metal can be the iPhone’s worst enemy.

The folks behind the YouTube channel Backyard Scientists decided to see what happens when you dunk the iPhone in molten aluminum. Seeing the iPhone get a Terminator 2 type of death is oddly beautiful.

Check it out:

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10 responses to “Watch what happens when an iPhone drowns in molten aluminum”

  1. CelestialTerrestrial says:

    Why do people do these stupid tests? Are they bored? Do they rely on these videos as their main source of income? Jeez.

    • Michael says:

      cause they get 10x more then this iphone is worth.

      • DMDickson says:

        The unanswerable logic of materialism. Why not drop a Stradivarius violin into a raging bed of hot coals? Well, like dude, if the price is right huh?.” A perfect no brainer (to a modern no brainer that is).

      • Michael says:

        Thats just a phone… he is burning his “money” not yours so i dont understand why u care so much. Thats how he makes living, just think about regular job – u need tools, sonetimes expensive to make money, this iPhone is his tool.

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  2. hymntech says:

    well that’s one guaranteed means of data destruction.

  3. Randy Johnston says:

    So stupid

  4. michaels99 says:

    “This isn’t your normal stress test”.
    This isn’t any kind of stress test, this is just raising the temperature of the device past the melting point of its primary material. We already know what happens when you heat things past their melting point, they melt!

  5. Aleph Null says:

    lets dick around with molten metal! what should we wear? I know! shorts!

  6. RB says:

    Well that was 3 minutes I’ll never get back… WWWWOOOOOWWWWW! FM!

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