Abstract: A process for producing a liquid-solid composition comprising heating a liquefiable material sufficiently to form a liquid phase with solid dendritic particles therein without completely liquefying the material and subjecting said liquid-solid material to a shearing action sufficient to break at least a portion of the dendritic structures. The process includes injection molding, forging or die casting the material produced by the process.

Abstract: A process for forming a liquid-solid composition from a material which, when frozen from its liquid state without agitation, forms a dendritic structure. A material having a non-thioxotropic-type structure, in a solid form, is fed into an extruder. The material is heated to a temperature above its liquidus temperature. It is then cooled to a temperature less than its liquidus temperature and greater than its solidus temperature, while being subjected to sufficient shearing action to break at least a portion of the dendritic structures as they form. Thereafter, the material is fed out of the extruder.