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These include tungsten, which is difficult to source and a crucial material for the aerospace industry, tellurium, widely used for solar panels, and molybdenum, which is used to strengthen steel alloys.

The fires were so intense that wheel alloys on cars were melted to puddles of liquid metal.

“The fire was so hot, you can see the alloy wheels were completely melted,” Mark said of a neighbor’s car.

Since then, it has been adorned with bronze alloys, ceiling lights and a midnight purple colour-wrap.

For their proof-of-concept work, the researchers used Field's metal, which is an alloy of indium, bismuth and tin.