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Question:

when a bimetallic bar made a copper and iron strips is heated the bar bends towards the iron strip?

why does this happen?

Answer:

They have a different coefficients of linear expansion. In other words, when they get heated up, one expands more than the other. What actually happens on the atomic scale, I'm not sure. If this was what you were looking for, my apologies D:

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