What’s a snowball’s chance in hell? According to the scientists and engineers at GE Global Research,
What’s a snowball’s chance in hell? According to the scientists and engineers at GE Global Research, unimpossible. In an attempt to push boundaries, GE’s snowball team decided to take the experiment to an old foundry where the molten metal reaches temperatures of over 2,000 degrees. There, they placed the snowball in a 3D-printed holder, which was then put inside a vessel, consisting of a nickel-based super alloy used to build gas turbine shrouds and alumina-silicate used on the outside of jet engines.The result? A success. The hot and beaming vessel emerged from the pool of molten metal slag — with the snowball inside it, untouched.For more Unimpossible Missions, head over to GE’s YouTube channel. -- source link
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