So in a fictional world –
Can a character melt a metal if he applies the pressure (equally distributed) to a metal body? Will application of indefinite amount of pressure on a small metal eventually lead to a change in it’s state? From solid to liquid-ish?
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No as the energy spent in compressing the material is utilized to deform it. This utilization is slightly inefficient. The heating of metal observed during compression is due to this inefficiency as the lost energy escapes as heat. Since the majority of energy goes in the compression, the material failure will occur with a fracture well before it does with melting
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