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melting alloy with thermite reaction as heat source

nikotyna1919 - 19-6-2020 at 15:49

can you use thermite reaction as a heat source for melting metal to make alloy
also i want to make titanium vanadium chromium alloy using thermite reaction as a heat source

Ubya - 19-6-2020 at 15:55

if you mean using thermite to heat a crucible containing the metal to melt, yeah but no, the reaction is pretty quick, the crucible would not transmit the heat fast enough, or you would nead a heap of thermite mixture...

if you mean "using the metal oxides in a thermite reaction to yeald the molten metals" yes i think you could but casting it would be nearly impossible, so once you made the alloy you would still need to remelt it, and at this point you didn't need a thermite reaction in the first place if you can melt the alloy