"Norman Wells" wrote in message
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: Dave Liquorice wrote:
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: OK how does a clock spring store energy without *any*
: atomic/sub-atomic effects?
:
: By mechanical strain of the crystalline structure of the spring
steel whose
: lowest energy, and therefore most stable, conformation is
'unwound'.
: Whenever displaced from that conformation it will tend to
revert to it when
: the strain is removed.
:
: No atomic or sub-atomic effects at all.
:

Wells, you're a right pillock! :~(