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FOR slowly damping a vibrating instrument of importance to the Navy, I let a metal knife cut through cobbler's wax, which is just soft enough to be squeezable between the fingers. The actual softness or hardness of the wax does not greatly matter, but what does matter is its becoming very much softer when its temperature increases from 15° C. to 30° C. This is its defect. I write in the hope that some one of your readers may be able to tell me of a suitable substance which will vary less in its softness as its temperature changes.
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PERRY, J. Viscosity of Cobbler's Wax. Nature 96, 426 (1915). https://doi.org/10.1038/096426a0
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