"Tom Quackenbush" wrote in message
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On Thu, 09 Oct 2003 20:43:35 GMT, "Ed Huntress"
wrote:

Flexon is a binary nickel-titanium shape-memory alloy that exhibits an
odd
property called pseudoelasticity.

I'm not familiar with the meaning of binary in this context. Two
element alloy?

Yup. That fancy name for it comes into play only because the properties
we're talking about involve phase changes, and they're characteristically
different for binary alloy systems versus ternary, etc., alloys.

I shouldn't have used the term here because it's only confusing and not
necessary to understanding how the properties work.


I thought you were supposed to be getting some work done, not
playing around on Usenet? g Seriously, thanks for the info and the
links. Good luck with your computers.

At the end of the work day today, I will put in the floppy disk with
Overkill on it, and down she goes. I'll have email on another computer but
no newsreader for a while.

If you can get a sample of shape-memory alloy somewhere, it's a lot of fun
to play with. It's as entertaining as Silly Putty.

p.s. TSS is very, very good. Thank you. I have more questions now than
before. Expect to be peppered after I reread it & after you get your
work done.

Jim Rozen can step in and help.


Ed Huntress