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← TechnologyWhich risk dramatically increases during investment casting using a silica-based slurry?
A)Shell cracking during burnout✓
B)Rapid mold cooling shrinkage
C)Incomplete binder polymerization
D)Melt contamination from inclusions
💡 Explanation
Shell cracking is more likely, because thermal stress increases during the wax burnout stage: differential expansion overwhelm's the shell's tensile strength. Therefore, cracking is the chief risk, rather than volumetric shrinkage or binder failure due to environment temperature exceeding ideal material properties.
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