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by gst 1483 days ago
Yes, but if a metal with a lower melting point is in fluid state inside another solid metal that's not better than having both in a fluid (or solid) state.

Here's a related Quora discussion: https://www.quora.com/If-you-smelted-a-varied-mix-of-scrap-m...

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Seems like you can choose during manufacturing to make things easier to disassemble to enable easier recycling... So the answer to low-melting metals inside high-melting metals is just "Don't do that" because otherwise you'll miss the 95% recyclable policy.