Actually it's not the heat that does it, it's a mechanical thing. The sand particles are like millions of little hammers denting the surface of the metal.
On a large scale, the stretching or compressing of the skin of just one side of a piece of thin metal is going to end up in distortion.
Just like wood curling up when you get one side wet because only one side expends.
Soda blasting is much less intense on the metal surface, and much much better on sheet metal. Although, it's not nearly as aggressive as "sand", it'll strip paint, but not as good on heavy rust.
It just uses a special form of baking soda, so clean up isn't as bad - plus you can go right over chrome, glass, etc without masking. Most sand blasters can be converted pretty easily.
While I'm going on about sand blasting - be sure never to use silica sand - very, very bad for your lungs. Stick to the stuff made for sandblasting.
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