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IN NATURE of May 14 (p. 31) I notice a letter by Mr. C. A. Carus-Wilson on the rotation of a hollow steel flask, composed apparently of a spherical shell mounted on an axis constituting a diameter. Mr. Carus-Wilson speaks of this body as being under a “tension” of “31˙5 tons per square inch” at a certain speed of rotation. He does not, however, specify what is the tension to which he refers, nor where it is found, neither does he give the density and elastic constants of the material nor indicate the method by which he arrived at his result.
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Cambridge Philosophical Society's Transactions, vol. xiv. pp. 467–483.
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CHREE, C. The Flying to Pieces of a Whirling Ring. Nature 44, 82 (1891). https://doi.org/10.1038/044082a0
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