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Describe the bar-breaker experiment

      

Describe the bar-breaker experiment.

  

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Raphael
Procedure:
1. Try and break the cast-iron pin with your hands. Can you? (A bar-breaker is a strong iron frame which holds a steel bar fitted with a wing- nut. The other end is held by cast-iron pin as shown below).
2. Tighten the nut but do not break the pin.
3. Heat the bar strongly using two Bunsen burners as you keep tightening the nut.
4. Continue heating for another five minutes then let it cool.
5. Observe what happens.
bar-breaker.jpg
Discussion:
When the bar cools the cast-iron pin breaks. This shows that as the bar cools it contracts and strong forces pull against the pin. These forces makes the pin to break.
raphael answered the question on October 9, 2018 at 18:50


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