SPLITTING HEADACHE SOLVED
Vacuum Arc Technologies, Scottsboro, Ala., has devised a process to recycle the superlight aluminum-lithium alloy used to make the space shuttle's external tank. About 70% of the metal stock used to make each tank is machined away. To date, the waste has not been recycled since lithium cannot be...
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