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IN an attempt to find out how the most available silkworm (larva of Bombyx mori) makes the insoluble fibroin strands of its silk from the stiff water-soluble fibroinogen paste which forms the cores of the contents of its silk depots, two of the observations made have so much general interest that I send a brief account of them in the hope that others will either contribute to their explanation or direct attention to corresponding phenomena in other cases.
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RAMSDEN, W. Coagulation by Shearing and by Freezing. Nature 142, 1120–1121 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/1421120a0
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