I was thinking that it might be benificial to have metal cool on a microscopic level so that it’s surface would look like one of two things. Either like fish scales or almost completly flat.
The ways I thought I could accomplish this would be but a magnet under the cooling metal. then it might form flat, when it comes to the microscopic sense anyway.
You could get it to form like fish scales if you just made a little breeze over the cooling metal.
I could be completly wrong about those methods but it might give you a better idea of what i’m thinking about.
What would be the benifits of something like this.
P.S. I can’t remember where when or what it was for but there was a perfect (or almost perfect) ball bearing made I think it might have been for a satilite. Maybe if someone rembers what i’m talking about they could mention it here.
I don’t think the magnet idea would work. When metal is heated to the point of being malleable in a liquid form, it loses its attraction to magnets. By the time it was once again magnetic, it would have already taken its shape and the magnet would have no influence on it.