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I read the article. I read the abstract and skimmed the paper. And understood only a little. I sat, and I thought, and contemplated the duck on my desk... No

I read the article. I read the abstract and skimmed the paper. And understood only a little. I sat, and I thought, and contemplated the duck on my desk... Now what happens if we do the same thing with not quite "frozen" iron? Carbon? Other materials? What happens if we start mixing cocktails of materials that are known to not easily bind? What happens if we vary the temperature over time? What happens with different numbers of balls? What happens if we shake (a lot), and then stir a little in one direction, and then shake (a lot) and then stir a little in the opposite direction? What happens if we shake and then add another batch and then shake some more at a different frequency? What happens if we don't use balls but dodecahedrons? __(o)= \___) "That's nice." said the duck on my desk. "I cannot even begin to answer any of those questions. But that's where the fun of life is."

colechristensen 4y ago
Metallurgy is all about manipulating the crystal structure and microstructure of materials with games of temperature and additions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microstructure https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microstructure In steel it's about wandering around the iron-carbon phase diagram with specific times and temperatures to get a wide range of effects. https://fractory.com/iron-carbon-phase-diagram/ https://fractory.com/iron-carbon-phase-diagram/
- TechBro8615 4y ago
  So is chocolaturgy, which was the first example of a "phase transition map" shown in the (surprisingly fun) course on materials science that I took in college. https://soft-matter.seas.harvard.edu/index.php/The_Science_of_Chocolate:_interactive_activities_on_phase_transitions,_emulsification,_and_nucleation https://soft-matter.seas.harvard.edu/index.php/The_Science_o...