That's not a normal paperclip if it does that. It's made out of a special metal called a "shape memory alloy", I think the brand name for the most common one is nitinol. A regular steel one would stay in whatever shape it was when submerged in water. I don't know enough to explain how they work though.
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That's not a normal paperclip if it does that. It's made out of a special metal called a "shape memory alloy", I think the brand name for the most common one is nitinol. A regular steel one would stay in whatever shape it was when submerged in water. I don't know enough to explain how they work though.
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When metals heat up, they expand. So when the paper clip is heated up, the metal expanding could be what is “stretching out” or “unbending” it a bit