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Metal 3D printing at 100 times the speed and a twentieth of the cost

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The final printed part is then first placed in a "debind" fluid that breaks down the wax and most of the plastic before being placed into a furnace where the rest of the binding agent (which has a boiling point of just below the metal) is burnt off, leaving just the metal.

Presumably the binding agent's boiling point is just below the metal's melting point, not its boiling point...

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