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For the first time, researchers have described how the tiny crystalline grains that make up most solid metals actually form. Understanding this process, they say, could theoretically lead to ways of producing stronger, lighter versions of widely used metals such as aluminum, steel and titanium.
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Image courtesy of Christopher Schuh, Keith Nelson, and James LeBeau
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