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Flint Fracture
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Flint Fracture

  • W. J. LEWIS ABBOTT1 

Nature volume 94, page 198 (1914)Cite this article

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IT is to be regretted that the letter of Mr. Reid Moir in NATURE of September 24 has received no reply. If chemists, mineralogists, petrologists, and physicists could have been made to realise the fruitful fields for profitable and far-reaching research opened to them by this subject, our knowledge would be in a very different state to-day, and many of the contentions and mysteries would be replaced by demonstrable facts.

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