Nickel titanium

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Nickel titanium, also known as nitinol, is a metal alloy of nickel and titanium, whose two elements are present in roughly equal atomic percentages. Nitinol alloys are named according to the weight percentage of nickel; e.g., nitinol 55 and nitinol 60.

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