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1 posted on 03/31/2025 7:11:27 PM PDT by Red Badger
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For Rocket nozzles?


2 posted on 03/31/2025 7:12:52 PM PDT by Paladin2 (AND TATOO)
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To: Red Badger

That picture is a colorized transmission electron micrograph.


3 posted on 03/31/2025 7:14:46 PM PDT by packagingguy
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Can it also be used to make Clean Clappers?

Asking for a friend who had his Copped.


6 posted on 03/31/2025 7:16:11 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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They could call it Cu-Li-Ta, but it would sound like a Spanish insult.


9 posted on 03/31/2025 7:18:15 PM PDT by rfp1234 (E Porcibus Unum)
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“Reardon Metal”


11 posted on 03/31/2025 7:26:12 PM PDT by Lee N. Field ("And if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's offspring, heirs according to promise" Gal 3:29)
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On L.E. Modesitt’s world which includes the island of Recluce, this would be Cupridium.


13 posted on 03/31/2025 7:29:01 PM PDT by Some Fat Guy in L.A. (Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite its unfashionability)
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Very fascinating. I’d never heard of cryogenic milling, but it’s been used for decades. It was originally used to pulverize used tires. You get materials below their ductile to brittle transition point and you can smash them to bits in pulverizers.


15 posted on 03/31/2025 7:46:11 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (PDJT doesn’t just walk through the Valley of the Shadow of Death. He swaggers.)
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Aircraft skin.

https://periodic-table.rsc.org/element/73/tantalum


17 posted on 03/31/2025 7:47:30 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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Transparent aluminum


18 posted on 03/31/2025 7:48:16 PM PDT by al baby (I know sarcasm )
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I see no reference to fracture toughness.

Lack of fracture toughness is always the achilles heel of these “wonder materials”.


27 posted on 03/31/2025 10:34:11 PM PDT by Reverend Wright (Anschluss now !)
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"..on the scale of nickel-based superalloys..."

HRSA's baby! Heat Resistant Super Alloys. I machine this stuff all day long for a living and yeah its some crazy cool material. That whole HRSA line is. Its amazing how it can be glowing bright orange hot and still maintain its mechanical properties. I think Kelly Johnson of the 1960's Skunk Works era first made it famous.
28 posted on 03/31/2025 10:35:05 PM PDT by know.your.why
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