[Jewelry making - Article 00230] - Re: [Orchid] The Metallurgy of Keum-boo

[Pam Chott (E-mail)]

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    Alan, I think you missed the ".5" in the text.  :-) 

>          clip . . . To understand diffusion we must accept that as a
>     metal is heated to temperature above .5 of its melting point,
>     vacant lattice sites are created. 

    Without that figure in the sentence, just as you probably surmised,
    those vacant lattice sites would do little to redeem the puddle of
    alloy we'd be making.   

Pam Chott
Songofthephoenix AT pobox.com

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