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Originally posted by Phood
Look at this video, the metal ball to the left is made out of stainless steel, and the one to the right is made out of amorphous metal.
mrsec.wisc.edu...
[edit on 4-6-2005 by Phood]
Originally posted by Kidfinger
Originally posted by Phood
Look at this video, the metal ball to the left is made out of stainless steel, and the one to the right is made out of amorphous metal.
mrsec.wisc.edu...
[edit on 4-6-2005 by Phood]
That was a damn cool demo. Just one thing though. It is not the balls that are Amorphous metal. There is a disk of the AM in one of the cylinders. THe other just has regular steel. The balls are both steel balbearings as well. Apperantly you can buy this as a kit.
One thing I would like to see though is the material that is described as tin foil that would unfold as you folded it your hand.
Originally posted by Bursuc
Originally posted by Phood
One thing I would like to see though is the material that is described as tin foil that would unfold as you folded it your hand.
Could this be the answer ?
www.sciencedaily.com...
"Unlike window glass, metallic glass is not brittle. Many traditional metals are relatively easy to "deform," or bend permanently out of shape, because their crystal lattices are riddled with defects. A metallic glass, in contrast, will spring back to its original shape much more readily.
"If you rank materials for how springy they are, metallic glasses are off the chart," says Hufnagel, an assistant professor of materials science and engineering. "They're far and away better than anything else out there."
[edit on 5-6-2005 by Bursuc]