Hi,
Although the thread had been around since 2010 by HayTay, I just found it and decided to give it a try.
Here's my take on it:

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You've probably seen magicians (including myself) do the "Mystery of the Linking Rings", where the magician magically makes several steel rings link and unlink as he passes them out to the audience for examination. He will take, say for example, two separate rings and make one melt onto the other and then immediately pass it out for examination. There is no way to get them apart again. Yet, the magician takes them back and makes them melt apart once more. Then, after several mysterious linking and unlinking feats, he causes them all to collapse into one giant chain of linked rings and then with a wave of his hand they all fall apart again. AMAZING!

Mark