Re: Physics & Chemistry

[roger haar <haar@soliton.physics.arizona.edu>]

Hi
	Yes the temperature of solution well be a bit higher.  
Possibly more interesting is to compare the rates at which a 
stressed and an unstressed spring dissolve.  A more common variant of
this is an acid etch of a piece of metal of which part of it is more
stress the the rest of it.  It beleive that I have heard that the
stressed part dissolves slightly faster.

Thanks
roger haar   U of AZ



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On Thu, 21 Nov 1996 SHEPHERDG@GTCC.CC.NC.US wrote:

> Folks!
>     I've come across a question that could use some unique insight to
> answer. If you take a spring and compress it, you've stored mechanical
> potential energy it. If you take the compressed spring and place it in an
> acid bath, what happens to the mechanical PE as the spring is desolved?
> Any opinions would be welcomed.
> Gordon Shepherd
> Guilford Tech. Comm. Coll.
> Jamestown, NC 27282