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IF Mr. Mallock's friction theory of cutting-tool action is valid, and if cutting tools are ever effectively lubricated, it would follow that the dry tool should have an angle different from that of the lubricated tool. But this is contrary to universal practice. The inference would then be that either the friction theory is unimportant and extremely incomplete, or that lubrication as practised by engineers is very ineffective. The latter view seems more correct, for the following reasons.
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ROWELL, H. Action of Cutting Tools. Nature 110, 771–772 (1922). https://doi.org/10.1038/110771a0
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