welding
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Scientists Just Figured Out How To Weld Metal To Glass Which Could Revolutionise Car Manufacturing
This is one of those things that just doesn’t sound like it should work at all: Somehow melting together glass and metal to combine into one, unified, part-glass/part-metal mongrel whole. If it could be done, it would be a breakthrough for automobile manufacturing, which is all about combining glass and metal. Well, it seems that…
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A New Technique Can Weld Together Un-Weldable Materials
In recent decades, material scientists have made ever-stronger metals — but the techniques used to weld them often ruin their properties. Now, a team has developed a way to weld together these previously un-weldable materials.
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Watch Molten Steel Run Through This 19th Century Welding Workshop
A few weeks ago, a tiny gallery in London was transformed into a scene straight out of the 19th century. Amid piles of sand, a worker donned a silver apron and safety helmet and poured molten hot steel down a track to create long slabs of metal. The man in the apron was Raphael Hefti…