{"id":57740,"date":"2017-05-27T18:45:30","date_gmt":"2017-05-28T01:45:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/nitinol-an-alloy-that-remembers-its-shape"},"modified":"2017-06-02T14:01:33","modified_gmt":"2017-06-02T21:01:33","slug":"nitinol-an-alloy-that-remembers-its-shape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/nitinol-an-alloy-that-remembers-its-shape","title":{"rendered":"Nitinol \u2013 an alloy that remembers its shape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-video\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/facebook\/videos\/1393568387348127\" data-width=\"625\" data-allowfullscreen=\"true\" data-autoplay=\"true\"><\/div>\n<p>When I saw this for the first time, I couldn\u2019t believe my eyes. Well, I still kind of don\u2019t\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Nitinol is a metal alloy of nickel and titanium, where the two elements are present in roughly equal atomic percentages.<\/p>\n<p>Shape memory is the ability of nitinol to undergo deformation at one temperature, then recover its original, undeformed shape upon heating above its \u201ctransformation temperature\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>For great chemistry experiments to do by yourself go here: <a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/ezDa0A\">https:\/\/goo.gl\/ezDa0A<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/melscience\/videos\/1393568387348127\/\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/melscience\/videos\/1393568387348127\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I saw this for the first time, I couldn\u2019t believe my eyes. Well, I still kind of don\u2019t\u2026 Nitinol is a metal alloy of nickel and titanium, where the two elements are present in roughly equal atomic percentages. Shape memory is the ability of nitinol to undergo deformation at one temperature, then recover its [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57740"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57959,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57740\/revisions\/57959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}