American Scientific Nitinol Memory Wire

Description

Nitinol (pronounced night-in-all) is an alloy metal; its name stands for Nickel (Ni), Titanium (Ti), and the Naval Ordnance Laboratory (NOL) where it was discovered

• Bend it, then drop it into hot water and watch it return to its original shape!
• This crystalline metal changes phase around 75°C
• You can also retrain this wire by annealing it
• First, bend it into the desired shape, heat it to a dull red glow along the entire length, and then cool it by immersing it in water
• After cooling, the wire can be deformed but will instantly return to its newly trained shape when dunked into hot water!

Specifications

• Description: 1 ft. long
• Includes: Teacher's Guide
• Quantity: 1
• Thickness: 0.5 mm
• Weight (English): 0.001 lb. each
• Weight (Metric): 0.43 g each