Unfamiliar Term

Has anyone ever heard of a term called “Crystalized Metal”?

Thanks,

Allan

Any chance you would have a picture or a website with some pics?

I would love to see them.

T_Bone

Ya just won the door prize.

I used to work for a drunk up in North Dakota that used to do that. Always talking about how this or that broke on him & it was always because it was crystalized. It was never because of his mistakes.

He couldn't put air in a tire without breaking something. I think the tire stems must have been crystalized too. :>)

Bless his heart, he's gone now; drank himself clear to death; but, whenever I break something these days, I think of that "crystalized metal". :>)

Allan

Atoms of elements that arrange themselves in a orderly geometric pattern upon solidification are said to be crystalline.

Crystals grow in all directions upon solidification until they meet other crystals also growing in the melt. When the crystals meet and produce irregular boundries they are called grains.

That is what we mean when we say were looking at the metal grain structure. We are actually looking at the many crystals that is formed when the metal has cooled.

T_Bone

Before someone says it... sodium IS a metallic element.

So context is important when you use the term "crystallized metal".

The dictionary says nothing about sodium not being a metallic element. Nice try!

Isn't this some kind of weather we're havin' this year? :>)

Allan

I heard the term a lot when the axle broke off the 300 international rowcrop. Heard it again when the other axle broke off some years later. Dad used several other words as well.....

The neighbor had quite the experence when he was driving an International with mounted corn picker down the road in road gear & the axel broke..... .

Anyhow, crystalized metal was when the iron in the axle was real brittle, and broke/ shattered. Would have been in the early 70s when this was being discussed.

--->Paul