An article of aluminum base-metal alloyed with an alloying element is prepared
by mixing a chemically reducible nonmetallic base-metal precursor compound of the
aluminum base-metal and a chemically reducible nonmetallic alloying-element precursor
compound of an alloying element to form a precursor compound mixture. The alloying
element may be, but is not necessarily, thermophysically melt incompatible with
the aluminum base metal. The method further includes chemically reducing the precursor
compound mixture to a metallic alloy, without melting the metallic alloy, and thereafter
consolidating the metallic alloy to produce a consolidated metallic article, without
melting the metallic alloy and without melting the consolidated metallic article.
