Award-winning alloys could reduce costs for chemical and petrochemical industries

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This macrophotograph compares commercial nickel-based Alloy 600 (top) and Argonneacutes new alloy after 5700 hours of exposure to the same metal-dusting environment at 593C.
This macrophotograph compares commercial nickel-based Alloy 600 (top) and Argonne's new alloy after 5,700 hours of exposure to the same metal-dusting environment at 593°C.

Materials developed by scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory could provide large cost and energy savings to the chemical and petrochemical industries.


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