[TheForge] amorphous steel

[Peter Fels And Phoebe Palmer]

Oh boy! I want some to play with!.....PF

Andy Vida wrote:

>Gabriel Cain wrote:
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>>Clyde Wynia wrote:
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>>>But can you forge it?
>>>New amorphous steel is twice as strong
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>>It sounds like you can:
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>>"When you produce a block of some metal and want to shape it, you can do
>>machining," Poon told UPI. "However, if you can treat these guys as
>>plastics, you can build a mold, and then when you cast it, you can just
>>cast it in. You can squeeze it, compress it, deform it, flatten it out,
>>shape it like plastics."
>>
>>That says forgeable to me.  Now, there may be issues related to what
>>heat you can take it to, and the effects of heat on it (i.e., crystal
>>growth issues?)
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>>But it does sound like that it's at least forgeable under some conditions.
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>	Very definitely.  Sounds like the biggest concern is
>	lack of ductility.  They'll engineer their way around
>	that, I'm sure.  They always do. :)
>
>	-Adny
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