[Jewelry making - Article 00210] - Re: [Orchid] Beyond my known world of metallurgy

[R . E . Rourke]

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    based on what i know of metallurgy, the theorem i as i know it goes
    something like this..( and relates to wave and particle physics of
    crystal structures): 

    the brass being an alloy of compacted metallic structures became
    heated to the liquidus state, and the crystals of metal, still BARELY
    attached to each other, stretched to their absolute limit, much like
    a mesh, or netting, that allowed the non-alloyed fine silver, to fill
    in the essential "holes" in the walls of netting with crystals of
    silver that were somewhere between the liquidus and solidus states (
    you perhaps could have manipulated it as a paste like material at
    that point) yet remained 'complete' crystalline components/structures
    that wouldn't stretch as the alloy did, but would have flowed,like
    they were lined up- with gravity in a downward direction and probably
    in a linear pattern.(if you had some flux,or other conductive
    substance applied non-linearly it may have taken a zig-zag path for
    instance).As the metals coolled the crystals shrunk and the silver
    became the mortar and the adobe, so-to-speak, both filling in the
    holes, and coating the entire structure..Hope this really crude
    explaination creates some mental picture of the process ..I'm amazed
    that you were able to repeat the phenomenon over and over..i'm also
    wondering if you were using a flouride based flux ( battern's like)
    or borax based ( cupronil,prips, handyflux,etc.,). 

R.E.R
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