"I will play to my strengths and I know what Ashy is capable of if he gets a bit of space, " he added.

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But if you heat up the alloy until it liquefies--Branagan's powder must be heated to 1, 200 degrees Celsius and applied with a thermal spray gun--it turns into an ashy powder as it cools, a metallic glass with "frustrated" molecules, as Branagan calls them, anxious to form a lattice, but confined by their inability to move.

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