So metal was metal and glass was glass until the early 1950s, when German scientists made amorphous metals by rapidly cooling vaporized tin and lead at a rate of roughly 1 trillion degrees Fahrenheit per second, a speed that fixed the jumbled atoms in place before they had a chance to form crystals. (discovermagazine.com)
A sandwich made of two thin sheets of amorphous metal flanking amorphous foam would be strong, light, insulating, fireproof, bug - proof, rustproof, sound dampening, and difficult to penetrate with bombs. (discovermagazine.com)
«For years people thought you could only make amorphous metals via rapid cooling,» says Johnson. (discovermagazine.com)