100 percent alloy

Great pedantic comment on the Amazon website. Component was made of “100% aluminium alloy”. If people don’t know what alloy means, why are they so keen to claim they are using it? Just because they think ‘alloy’ means it is good.

Fictional Materials: Transparant Aluminium

Transparent aluminium is used in ‘the Star Trek Universe’ to make exterior windows of star ships. This material features strongly in the plot of the movie Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home. The crew of the enterprise has gone back in time to bring back a pair of whales to communicate with an alien probe. [...]

MS Calculator Android App

A researcher at GIFT has produced an metallurgical application for android phones for calculation of MS, ε-MS, Ae3, Ae1, and conversion of weight percent to atomic percent. MS Calculator App webpage

Bainite Controversy

Some of my colleagues including one Professor have noticed that my Blog has been covering controversial topics, including religion (Church abuse, Vatican criticises about human rights ), politics (Liberal Double Speak, Burlesconi Scandal) , football (England have to qualify after losing bid to host World Cup). All of these are topics my uncle told me [...]

Is the World Cup solid Gold?

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