Metals go from strength to strength
Tuesday, April 15, 2014 - 08:07
in Physics & Chemistry
To the human hand, metal feels hard, but at the nanoscale it is surprisingly malleable. Push a lump of metal with brute force through a right-angle mould or die, and while it might look much the same to the naked eye when it comes out, the force applied to pressure it through the right-angle bend fundamentally changes its structure.