alloy

Most alloys shrink when cast in a mold, causing distortion.

But once the liquid alloy has spread out, pull the iron at once, don't tarry.

Sorenson claims there's an alloy that makes it a non-issue.

Depending on the alloy, type metal may even expand slightly.

From the article: This is like finding a new alloy of steel and then building a bridge out of it to see if its any good.

Gutenberg's real innovation was his type metal alloy.

Yes, because if you design a new alloy for improved performance of an f1 engine cilinder, you need to do your own oil changes too, right?

If you'd picked iron as the precious metal, I could fake an iron coin by mixing tin and lead together so the alloy's density matches iron's.

In a single step process, room temperature magnesium alloy chips are fed into the back end of a heated barrel through a volumetric feeder.

A mercury-thallium alloy can go to -61C, but apparently alcohol thermometers are preferred for measuring extreme cold, as they work to -70C.

And even if the software sucks, it's got a screen made of synthetic sapphire and a body made of an alloy so hard that when civilization collapses around you, you can use it as a hand-axe!

One process is described on wikipedia, using inert gas to prevent ignition[1]: For magnesium alloys, thixomolding uses a machine similar to injection molding.

Back before we had fancy alloy springs and were forced to use Steel as the material for mainsprings because that's all we knew, watches had problems where a freshly wound watch would run fast and a watch that hasn't been wound for a day or so would start to run slow, as the strength of the spring tapered off. The Geneva Drive was a solution, though it's more of a hack, to only let the spring release power inside the middle of it's power arc, by preventing the watch from unwinding past a certain low point and preventing the user from winding the spring up to it's strongest point.