The video dives into the anatomy of a jet engine—how air gets sucked in, compressed, ignited and expelled—and why they’ve ballooned in size over the decades.
It then reveals the real trick: turbine blades made from single-crystal nickel superalloys packed with tiny γ′ precipitates, grown via precision casting and drilled with internal cooling channels, so they can withstand combustion temperatures far above their melting point.
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