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Brief description
Melt Spinning or "Splat quenching" to produce metallic glass ribbon. Molten tin alloy is fed through a nozzle onto a rotating metal drum, resulting in extremely high cooling rates (approx. 1 million Kelvin per second). High speed photography at 4000 fps.
Categories
Experimental procedure
Date
06/09/06
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