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Heated and rolled Alvin titanium ingot at the forging plant.

Heated and rolled Alvin titanium ingot at the forging plant.
Heated and rolled Alvin titanium ingot at the forging plant.
Heated and rolled Alvin titanium ingot at the forging plant.
Heated and rolled Alvin titanium ingot at the forging plant.
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Advanced Imaging & Visualization Laboratory
Heated and rolled Alvin titanium ingot at the forging plant.
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06/01/2008
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Caption from Meet Alvin booklet:
At a forging plant in Wisconsin, the titanium ingots were heated to 1,700°F and "edge rolled" to get them as close to circular as possible. Next, they were paddled to flatten them and to reduce their thickness to about 6 inches.
Caption from Oceanus magazine, Vol. 48, No. 2, pg. 13:
At a Wisconsin forging plant, the titanium ingots were heated to 1,700°F and "edge rolled" to make them as circular as possible. Next, they were paddled to flatten them to a thickness of 6 inches.
Photo courtesy of Advanced Imaging & Visualization Laboratory, WHOI
© Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
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