Markten glanced at dials.
"Try a temperature test; see if the materials are withstanding the amperage. I will cut the current at your signal."
Markten's assistant obeyed.
"I don't understand," he said. "At completion, they were room-temperature—68.7 calibrations. Now, exactly 98.6 calibrations, yet the resistance of their chemical constituents would not warrant—"
"Any damage? Tissue-breakdown?"
"None I can see. Markten! The big one moved!"
Then the smaller one moved, too.