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Published online 18 April 2003 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news030414-12
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New alloys bend the rules
Metal mixes are supple, stretchy, strong and heat stable.
A new class of metal alloys has a remarkable combination of unusual and useful properties: all its members are strong, heat-stable, supple and elastic1.
The materials are compounds of titanium, zirconium, vanadium, niobium and tantalum - elements clustered together in the middle of the periodic table, in a larger group known as the transition metals.
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