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How Jet Engines Survive Temperatures Above Their Melting Point

Veritasium · Explainer · 40 min · 2025 · YouTube title: The Ridiculous Engineering Of Jet Engines
Why it's here

Commenters send it to people asking how engines survive such temperatures, and call it fascinating and worth watching.

What it covers

Veritasium explains how jet engines run hotter than their components' melting points, using cooling air and single-crystal superalloy turbine blades. It covers how the blades are grown as aligned crystals.