Claims
- 1. A process for producing agglomerates of aluminum based material suitable for plasma melting rapid solidification processing, said process comprising:
- (a) forming a slurry comprising a liquid medium, said aluminum based material, and one or more fluxing agents selected from the group consisting of boric oxide and boric acid; and
- (b) removing the liquid medium from said slurry to produce agglomerates of said aluminum based material and said fluxing agents.
- 2. A process of claim 1 wherein said a aluminum based material is selected from the group consisting of aluminum metal, and aluminum based alloys.
- 3. A process of claim 1 wherein said liquid medium is removed from said slurry by methods selected from the group consisting of air drying and spray drying.
Government Interests
The Department of the Air Force has rights in this invention as specified in Contract No. F33615-84-C-5063.
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