Aluminum and magnesium are among the “many” metals that melt at lower temperatures under extremely high pressure. The results came from a quantum computer simulation, but model real materials ...

Following more or less those directions, I was able to build and run my own mini foundry at home, melting about 30 cans to produce 4 mini-muffin sized ingots of (mostly) pure aluminum: ...

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Tired of waiting for those mountains of snow hogging precious parking spaces and blocking sidewalks to melt? Now engineers have come up with a simple contraption to shrink those piles quickly: a ...