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ONE of the results of the application of scientific methods to the cellulose in dustries, and in particular to paper, has been a realisation of the considerable inherent strength of the unit fibre. One would, of course, hesitate to select paper for any purpose for which great strength is essential, but at the same time it must be remembered that, when paper is broken, it is usually the bonds connecting the fibres, and not the fibres themselves, which are ruptured. Reliable figures are necessarily difficult to obtain, but actual measurements indicate that, weight for weight, the tensile strengths of certain cellulose Losis of Paper fibres and of wires made from light metals are of the same order (cf. NATURE, 131, 553, April 15, 1933).
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G., J. The Metamorphosis of Paper. Nature 134, 921–922 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/134921a0
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