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- From: berryh@huey.udel.edu (John Berryhill, Ph.D.)
- Subject: Re: Metals in liquid Nitrogen !!
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.051438.22043@udel.edu>
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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 05:14:38 GMT
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- It has long been known that certain characteristics of metals will
- change upon exposure to low temperatures and that such change in
- properties may be retained. Excuse me if I'm rehashing old stuff, but
- you can get martensitic transitions to occur in certain steels at high
- as well as at low temperatures.
-
- You can get over certain potential barriers either by (i) adding heat
- to a system or (ii) squeezing the componentns of the system closer
- together as occurs by thermal expansion (or contraction in the case
- at hand).
-
- Now with a bimettalic interface, you can have a tremendous and sudden
- buildup of interfacial stress if you cool the system down rapidly. That
- stress can only build up so far before something finds a way to relieve
- itself.
- --
- John Berryhill, Ph.D.
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