I found this wikipedia article describing twisting on atomic level but i don't understand enough of it to apply it to twisting a rock for example:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molecular_vibration
It looks like the material that gets twisted gets denser and denser until it breaks. If i think about twisting a dishcloth
Hello everyone, i'm not really sure if this is the proper place to ask these kind of questions, but here it goes:
Twisting seems to break everything from tree branches to iron wire:
Could you twist a rock until it breaks in half using some sort of machinery? What would the cross-section even look like?
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