A metal bobby pin is heated until red hot, then allowed to cool slowly; this process is called annealing. The annealed bobby pin is very flexible.
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- Ron Perkins Greenwich High School, Greenwich, CT 06830
- Kelly Houston Jetzer University of Wisconsin - Madison, Madison, WI 53706
- Demonstration
- Kelly Houston Jetzer University of Wisconsin - Madison, Madison, WI 53706
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- Kelly Houston Jetzer University of Wisconsin - Madison, Madison, WI 53706
- Nancy S. Gettys University of Wisconsin - Madison, Madison, WI 53706
- David Phillips Wabash College, Crawfordsville, IN 47933
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- Jerrold J. Jacobsen University of Wisconsin - Madison, Madison, WI 53706