If you want to do casting at home, you’ll need a way to melt metal. [Jake]’s DIY foundry furnace gets hot enough to melt aluminium, and is built out a mix of scrap parts. The chamber of the ...

has some neat tricks up its quickly melting sleeve. It melts in your hand, can be used to make a gag spoon, and can turn a typical soda can into mush. The aluminum on a can amalgamates with the ...

Aluminum is a metal in group IIIA of the periodic table with atomic number 13, an atomic weight of 26.982, and a density of 2.70. It has a melting temperature of 660 C. The electronic configuration of ...

According to PNNL, the solid phase alloying process converts aluminum scrap blended with copper, zinc and magnesium into ...

A groundbreaking method developed by researchers at the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) ...

Solid phase manufacturing can create new custom metal alloys through an innovative process called solid phase alloying, researchers report.

Simultaneous recycling and alloying of aluminum scrap via friction extrusion yields high-strength materials, addressing ...