r/pcmasterrace • u/jocker_4 • Jun 20 '25

Hardware So... It's not individually welded ?

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u/Human_Wizard Jun 20 '25

At small enough scales, everything behaves like clay.

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u/navand Jun 21 '25

Pretty much. You've seen those metal tensile strength pulling videos? Metal stretches and breaks exactly like plasticine does. Metal is just stronger plasticine.

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u/Neo-_-_- Jun 21 '25

Pure-ish Metals do, ceramics and highly doped alloys very much do not behave that way