Playing with LMPA (gallium)

Discussion in 'General foundry chat' started by metallab, Aug 10, 2020.

  1. metallab

    metallab Silver

    Low Melting Point Alloy is an alloy melting not far above room temperature, such as Rose's metal (63 C) and here I have Gallium (mp 30 C) and playing on a hot summer day just above its mp.
    It behaves like water and ice, the 'ice' (solid gallium) is lighter than liquid gallium, unusual like water.

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  2. Jason

    Jason Gold

    Does that stuff ever get hard? Does it even have a purpose?
     
  3. metallab

    metallab Silver

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