RESEARCH ON MGLI AND A SPECIFICALLY GERMA N CONSEQUENCE

When light weight structural applications are of prime concern, magnes ium cannot be ignored When magnesium is of prime conern, of course, th e research cannot be ignored, either. Since there is not much to be ig nored (or not), however, it is the research on MgLi that takes the lea d in the German press. ''Rock-solid as Kruppstahl'' was it meant to be [1], through MgLi-alloys soften quite appreciable already at ambient temperature [2]. A hydrogen treatment of the MgLi melt was the phenome non that was naturally astounded. In the meantime, however, it became very tranquilly around the contest for the selection of the species fr om the ''MgLi-Born''. Has the hot air already escaped? Warm wind is no t bad in each case. Daily discipline, however, has scaled ever since w ith the natural beauty of the more concrete results by working. What f ollows is an article that looks upon this particular German variant ot the ''histoire parallele'' in the field of metallic innovations as we ll as upon the sound base of such deliberately outbalanced renaissance s.