The study or application of thermite reactions and heat-producing chemical processes involving aluminum and metal oxides.
From aluminothermic + -s (plural). A technical field name combining chemistry and materials engineering terminology.
Aluminothermics enabled major industrial advances—it's how workers could weld railroad tracks together in the field and how metal oxides could be reduced at enormous temperatures without furnaces.
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