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Tensile Strength of Water and Liquid Structure Theory

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THE following note arises out of work in this Department examining erosive action from the point of view of liquid structure theory.

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  1. Proc. Camb. Phil. Soc., 37, 252 (1941).

  2. Ewing, "Thermodynamics for Engineers", second edition (Cambridge University Press, 1936), p. 347.

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  1. Research Dept., G. and J. Weir, Ltd., Glasgow, S.4.

    R. S. SILVER

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SILVER, R. Tensile Strength of Water and Liquid Structure Theory. Nature 150, 605 (1942). https://doi.org/10.1038/150605a0

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