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Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
Light microscopic images of the composite powders after a thermal post-treatment in a tube furnace at different temperatures for 1 min above the melting point of the AlSi10Mg alloy for 5 vol% SiC and Al2O3 reinforcement (composite powders produced with menthol as PCA).