The popular topic of conversation is often one of the following: (a) methods of cooling off without breaking the bank, (b) vacation plans, (c) what to wear to keep cool, and (d) weather patterns across the country.

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Liquid metal is a way of cooling the metal very quickly indeed (early methods used cooling of millions of degrees per second) and so getting your metal into a solid state before the crystals could form.

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