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Re: Exceptionally strong and lightweight new metal created

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Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 12/26/15 8:44 PM, jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com wrote:
>> Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Exceptionally strong and lightweight new metal created
>>>> http://phys.org/news/2015-12-exceptionally-strong-lightweight-metal.html
>>>
>>>> A team led by researchers from the UCLA Henry Samueli School of
>>>> Engineering and Applied Science has created a super-strong yet light
>>>> structural metal with extremely high specific strength and modulus,
>>>> or stiffness-to-weight ratio. The new metal is composed of magnesium
>>>> infused with a dense and even dispersal of ceramic silicon carbide
>>>> nanoparticles. It could be used to make lighter airplanes,
>>>> spacecraft, and cars, helping to improve fuel efficiency, as well as
>>>> in mobile electronics and biomedical devices.
>>>>
>>>> To create the super-strong but lightweight metal, the team found a
>>>> new way to disperse and stabilize nanoparticles in molten metals.
>>>> They also developed a scalable manufacturing method that could pave
>>>> the way for more high-performance lightweight metals. The research
>>>> was published today in Nature.
>>
>> What's the cost compared to 6061-T6 aluminum and is it weldable and
>> machineable?
>>
>>
>>
> 
>   6061-T6 will be hard to beat.
 
Especially since the price of magnesium is about 3 times that of aluminum,
and it both burns and corrodes rather easily.

One highly doubts the subject of this breathelss press release will be
of any value at all.

-- 
Jim Pennino

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Exceptionally strong and lightweight new metal created Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-12-26 20:11 -0600
  Re: Exceptionally strong and lightweight new metal created Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2015-12-27 13:32 +1100
    Re: Exceptionally strong and lightweight new metal created Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-12-26 20:46 -0600
  Re: Exceptionally strong and lightweight new metal created jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2015-12-27 02:44 +0000
    Re: Exceptionally strong and lightweight new metal created Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-12-26 20:48 -0600
      Re: Exceptionally strong and lightweight new metal created jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2015-12-27 03:13 +0000

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