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You may have heard of the Late Bronze Age collapse.
Well, you're living in the Late Silicon Age collapse.
You see, metal never changes (ignore Uranium etal please).
Silicon is actually a semi-metal...
Unless you ask an astronomer, then everything but hydrogen and helium is a metal
then this stuff throws a curveball into the hydrogen thing
Still not a metal according to astronomers.
You are technically correct, the best kind of correct. This is annoying because I do work in both astronomy and condensed matter. So I have to be careful of context for using words like metal.