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No satisfactory method of cutting sections of cotton hairs and similar material appears to have been published; the technique recommended by Balls (“Development and Properties of Raw Cotton”, p. 176) is open to the objection that the hairs pull away from the wax at the cutting surface, thus losing the rigidity which is essential for good sections, and attempts made to remedy this by coating the hairs with a paraffin-wax different from that of the main embedding mass did not produce any marked increase in adhesion; while embedding in celloidin or cellulose acetate gave very unsatisfactory results by reason of the contraction and distortion of the hairs.
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DENHAM, H. Method of Cutting Sections of Cotton Hairs. Nature 107, 299 (1921). https://doi.org/10.1038/107299a0
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