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If you choose your metals carefully you can weld together two strips made of different kinds of metal which have different rates of thermal expansion, so that depending upon the temperature, the strip will bend either to the left or to the right. When the metal bends far enough it can touch an electrical contact and close a circuit, which then causes the oven to either turn on or turn off as the case might be.

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