Patent ID: 6926754

Claim:
A method for preparing an article of a base metal alloyed with an alloying element, comprising the steps of providing a chemically reducible nonmetallic base-metal precursor compound of a base metal selected from the group consisting of nickel, cobalt, iron, iron-nickel, and iron-nickel-cobalt; providing a chemically reducible nonmetallic alloying-element precursor compound of an alloying element, wherein the alloying element is thermophysically melt incompatible with the base metal; thereafter mixing the base-metal precursor compound and the alloying-element precursor compound to form a compound mixture; thereafter chemically reducing the compound mixture to produce a metallic superalloy without melting the metallic superalloy; and thereafter consolidating the metallic superalloy to produce a consolidated metallic article, without melting the metallic superalloy and without melting the consolidated metallic article.