I have just spent rather too much of the last hour and a bit watching videos about heat treatments for metals. some ten years after a colleague "lent" me his copy of Cottrell's Introduction to Metallurgy that took me down such a deep rabbit hole that he eventually stormed into my office with a copy he'd bought for me, demanding his own back 😂, I continue to find this stuff endlessly fascinating. #metallurgy

@sellathechemist Have you ever watched the TV program:

"Forged in Fire".

Fascinating. Absolutely fascinating.

@ColinTheMathmo No. I need to watch that. I've just spent too much time thinking about aerospace alloys and now I'm late for a talk I'm giving at Institute of Physics. Yikes. #StrangeIce
@sellathechemist @ColinTheMathmo Dad's PhD was on stress corrosion cracking in marine environments, he ended up working on the metallurgy of submarines, aircraft, climbing kit and oil rigs. I can listen to him talk about it for hours. Takeaway advice: don't clean your safety critical aluminium with steel wool.
@_thegeoff @ColinTheMathmo Aluminium has an Achilles skin.