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To explain the elastic properties of viscid fluid threads, Sir Joseph Larmor imagines their molecules to be shaped like dumb-bells, interacting by forces between their ends, so that when two rows lie in parallel there is a position of equilibrium when the ends are opposite each other, and an elastic reaction comes into play which allows of a large range of reversible extension.
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Points from Foregoing Letters. Nature 138, 81 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/138081b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/138081b0