Using either in thousands, without a decimal separator for reference, should be universally condemned and punished by melting

I agree that the American aversion to the metric system is ridiculous, but if they ever take away tuples broken up by commas I will petiition our government leave the United Nations.

What do you mean? Gold and tungsten totally melt in the palm of your hand. Things like gallium and mercury literally sublime if you hold them without gloves in the vacuum of space.