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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Paul M., post: 2106753, member: 73165&quot;]Yes, there&#039;s such a thing as metal flow; I&#039;m saying it&#039;s not because part of the metal becomes molten.&nbsp; If I have a block of lead and hit it moderately hard with a hammer, I&#039;m going to leave a dent, but you can&#039;t tell me that&#039;s because I&#039;ve somehow heated the lead under the head of my hammer to its melting point of 327.5 C.</p><p><br /></p><p>The reason metal flows is because it&#039;s <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malleability" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malleability" rel="nofollow">malleable</a>.&nbsp; What exactly causes metal to be malleable, I don&#039;t know.&nbsp; The best I can do is something like &quot;*mumble, mumble* quantum mechanics ...*blah blah*.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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