Where has the energy gone?

[john91]

If you had a clock spring and wound it up tightly, it now has energy stored in it and is capable of doing work, ie running a clock, if you prevented it from unwinding and put it in an acid bath and dissolved it where would the energy go?

[ugly_bob]

The energy would release while it was being dissolved. Once one part got weak enough, it would break and 'spring' out

[mibn2cweus]

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[Peter Pedant]

ask a scientist is absolutely fabulous

and thank yofor pointinng it out

[john91]

Thanks for the all the answers and the link, as Peter says, its fabulous

[wazzaa]

well guys, that's as clear as mud then???