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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ratpack7, post: 1105633, member: 28375&quot;]First off it&#039;s Physic&#039;s not chemistry</p><p>When you bend a wire back and forth it causes fatigue and stress fractures that grow as the bending continues. There is heat generated in the process but the wire <a href="http://matse1.matse.illinois.edu/metals/c.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://matse1.matse.illinois.edu/metals/c.html" rel="nofollow">DOES NOT</a> break because it melted. </p><p>One of my hobbies for for over the last 20 years or so involves the melting, reshaping, pounding, and cutting, of metals IE metallurgy, Welding, and smelting.</p><p>&nbsp;taking steal to red hot (working temp) is not melting it... all metal has a <a href="http://www.esabna.com/euweb/oxy_handbook/589oxy9_1.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.esabna.com/euweb/oxy_handbook/589oxy9_1.htm" rel="nofollow">crystalline structure</a>.&nbsp; iron has a crystalline structure that has carbon trapped within it. At high temperatures (red hot), iron has an FCC structure which can dissolve carbon. which makes it able to be worked easily. </p><p>Again a dryer will not MELT a coin! What you are mistaking for Melting is basically a fine sanding. look at lucky coins that have been rubbed over and over by someones thumb. you&#039;re fingerprint is a very soft very fine from of sand paper. this is why some sculpture&#039;s have features rubbed off them from millions of people touching them.</p><p>It surprises me how little people that collect pieces of metal know about metallurgy. </p><p><br /></p><p>See HOBO I told you people think that dryers &quot;MELT&quot; Coins.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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