Reply to post: Re: Couldn't bring themselves to say "spring loaded" could they?

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Paul Kinsler

Re: Couldn't bring themselves to say "spring loaded" could they?

I think if I was going to say "stored kinetic energy", I'd have to be referring to something like a spinning flywheel. Spring loaded would mean (stored) elastic potential energy.

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