Aluminium continued dissolution

Pinel M.R., Bennett J.E., Voluminous oxidation of aluminium by continuous dissolution on a wetting mercury film, Journal of Materials Science, vol. 7, 1972, p. 1016-1026. 

When studying the growth kinetics of the intermetallic layers, after the run the crucible, together with the flux, the melt and the solid specimen, was shot into cold water to arrest the reactions at the transition metal-aluminium interface. Note that the solid specimen continued to rotate until solidification of the melt, ft is especially essential in examining the formation of the intermetallic layers under conditions of their simultaneous dissolution in the liquid phase (with undersaturated aluminium melts). The time of cooling the experimental cell from the experimental temperature down to room temperature did not exceed 2 s. 

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