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Quote: Originally Posted by dklebedev «Maraketing term». Nice one. I'd have fixed it if there was an editing capability :-) (Ah, but there is! Just found it...)
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Quote: Originally Posted by melgross I'm not making the claims you are. I'm simply using what we already know publicly, from statements they've made. From that is can be seen what they can, and might do. You're stating quite definitively that…
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Sorry, don't mean to sound presumptuous. So, do you work for Apple?
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As far as calling an alloy uniquely theirs, you're wrong about that. They call the 316L for the Watch their own alloy. They call the gold alloys theirs, and they called the SS alloy they said they developed for the original iPhone 4-4S theirs as …
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Quote: Originally Posted by melgross Ok, correct, somehow, I had a disconnect between the different parts of your post. Sorry about that. But naming something after what you call a minor contributed is normal, if it's believed that it is a…
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Melgross, please go back and carefully read what I posted. I did not say that slight amounts of alloying element do not contribute to physical properties. On the contrary I cited scandium added in the 0.1% to 0.2% range as being a very potent harden…
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3D printing via the laser sintering process used for metals would likely not be compatible with an amorphous metal alloy. The heat input would resort the amorphous structure to a crystalline structure.
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7075 is the most common of the 7000 series alloys, originally developed for high strength aerospace applications. That would be my guess as to what Apple is using for the Watch and is proposing for new iPhone cases. It can have a yield strength of…
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Amorphous alloys (LiquidMetals) have some attractive properties and some not so attractive properties. The article mentions cost. That is perhaps the largest bugaboo that is holding back adoption of this form of material. The composition of amorphou…