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#241 {lang:macro__useroffline}   Zoo {lang:icon}

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Posted 31 July 2007 - 08:01 PM

Heheh, I was wondering if you meant the non-sun one, but you asked for the closest bluetongue.gif.

Why will a piece of wire/metal eventually break if it is bent repeatedly?
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#242 {lang:macro__useroffline}   Daryl C {lang:icon}

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Posted 01 August 2007 - 04:19 AM

Because everytime you bend it the atoms become further and further apart eventually separating it?
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#243 {lang:macro__useroffline}   Zoo {lang:icon}

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Posted 01 August 2007 - 04:44 AM

Nope
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#244 {lang:macro__useroffline}   Ratty {lang:icon}

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Posted 01 August 2007 - 06:46 AM

Because each time you bend it back and forth, you're stretching it past its elastic limit, which fractures it. Simply gets worse the more times you do it.

*shrug* I -think- that was all there was to it xD
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#245 {lang:macro__useroffline}   Zoo {lang:icon}

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Posted 01 August 2007 - 02:22 PM

Eh... sort of. The fracture part is important. Think about structure.
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#246 {lang:macro__useroffline}   Goto {lang:icon}

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Posted 03 August 2007 - 08:29 AM

Bleh, I really should know this but my memory is pretty vague currently. I'll have to think on it. sad.gif
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Posted 07 August 2007 - 02:13 PM

I think we'll let Rat have it bluetongue.gif. What I was looking for is when metal is bent, it's crystalline structure becomes more and more regular, eventually becoming regular enough to be brittle and fracture.

(AKA work hardening when it's done on purpose (but not to the breaking point) to make it keep its shape [better]. Also why you can pinch wire slightly with a cutter and then get a clean break.)
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#248 {lang:macro__useroffline}   skenasis {lang:icon}

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Posted 08 August 2007 - 01:48 AM

Curse my AWOLness...I knew the answer to that one sad.gif

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(Rayquaza plushie? WTF? It doesn't look anything like the other plushies!)

Through our bleeding we are one.
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#249 {lang:macro__useroffline}   Goto {lang:icon}

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Posted 08 August 2007 - 02:31 PM

I knew I'd learnt it twice (In both Chem and Physics) but I couldn't quite recall the proper terms to use. Then I got lazy and forgot to check the topic later, or look up the proper terms. bluetongue.gif

Ratty, hurry up and post a new one, perhaps something in the field of Physics? I've got an infinite line of "Charge!" here for you if that'll help. grnwink.gif

I apologize opunly for that.
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#250 {lang:macro__useroffline}   Zoo {lang:icon}

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Posted 08 August 2007 - 03:58 PM

QUOTE(Goto @ Aug 8 2007, 10:31 AM) {lang:macro__view_post}
Ratty, hurry up and post a new one, perhaps something in the field of Physics?


AH NO! NOT MORE PHYSICS!! *ahem*

And yes, -two- bad jokes *baps Goto*
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#251 {lang:macro__useroffline}   Zziggywolf5 {lang:icon}

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Posted 08 August 2007 - 05:06 PM

I understand physics more than I do Zoo's zoology questions... Which still isn't much.

QUOTE (JGJTan @ Jul 17 2008, 04:48 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
I endorse stalking. :thumb:
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#252 {lang:macro__useroffline}   Goto {lang:icon}

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Posted 09 August 2007 - 10:15 AM

Zoo is pretty much a science all-star, she can always answer them. bluetongue.gif
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Posted 09 August 2007 - 02:39 PM

Yeah, she does.

QUOTE (JGJTan @ Jul 17 2008, 04:48 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
I endorse stalking. :thumb:
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#254 {lang:macro__useroffline}   Daryl C {lang:icon}

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Posted 09 August 2007 - 05:56 PM

Ok....I think we have to go find rat and drag him in here by the ears....he isn't coming to the Trivia board enough
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Posted 10 August 2007 - 08:26 AM

Unlike him, isn't it. bluetongue.gif

Next time I catch him on MSN I'll mention it.
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