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Twist in Wool

Nature volume 157, page 664 (1946)Cite this article

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HARRIS1 has directed attention to the tendency of wool to curl, and this, he considers, is due to the established difference in composition, and the assumed difference in physical characteristics, between the cuticle and the cortex of the wool fibre. No quantitative work on this has been reported.

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  1. Amer. DyeHuff Reporter, 34, 72 (1945).

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  1. Australian Wool Realization Commission Testing House, 17 Randle Street, Sydney

    MARTIN R. FRENEY, K. R. DEANE & J. R. ANDERSON

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FRENEY, M., DEANE, K. & ANDERSON, J. Twist in Wool. Nature 157, 664 (1946). https://doi.org/10.1038/157664b0

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