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THE recent interesting letters of Profs. M. Born and R. Fürth, published in NATUBE of May 11, on the strength of solids, lead me to think that experiments which I am now carrying out on the strength of liquids under hydrostatic tension may be of interest to physicists working in this field. Liquids, owing to their homogeneity and absence of rigidity, possess certain advantages over solids for the study of cohesion. In my view, measurements of the greatest tension which can be applied to liquids under various conditions have been rather neglected by physicists, particularly in recent years.
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VINCENT, R. Cohesion of Liquids. Nature 145, 970–971 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/145970b0
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