Patent ID: 6926755

Claim:
A method for preparing an article of aluminum base metal alloyed with an alloying element, comprising the steps of providing a chemically reducible nonmetallic base-metal precursor compound of the aluminum base metal; providing a chemically reducible nonmetallic alloying-element precursor compound of an alloying element, wherein the step of providing the chemically reducible nonmetallic alloying-element precursor compound includes the step of providing the alloying-element precursor compound of the alloying element, wherein the alloying element is thermophysically melt incompatible with the aluminum base metal; thereafter mixing the base-metal precursor compound and the alloying-element precursor compound to form a precursor compound mixture; thereafter chemically reducing the precursor compound mixture to a metallic alloy, without melting the metallic alloy; and thereafter consolidating the metallic alloy to produce a consolidated metallic article, without melting the metallic alloy and without melting the consolidated metallic article.