Talk:Cold welding

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The physics textbook I have here (Cutnell and Johnson) says that static and kinetic friction are thought to be caused by cold welding. I'm not comfortable enough of the fact to add the fact to the page without verification; any input? --ScottAlanHill 04:22, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

I was told this in an engineering class. Certainly it's not the only mechanism, but apparently it is one. —Ben FrantzDale 05:25, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

I've removed the edit claiming that cold welding was a myth. It looks like it was probably made by a reddit reader, based on the timing. I was told about cold welding in an engineering class, and the following links, when read carefully, support the position that cold welding does exist as a phenomenon -- that is, that it has been demonstrated in experiments -- but cannot, apparently, happen accidentally as is commonly beleived:

Also, http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/freeabs_all.jsp?arnumber=1136435, for someone who has access to the full text or a preprint, might be a good place to start looking for citations. --Evan

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