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IN 1935 Prof. E. N. da C. Andrade and Mr. P. J. Hutchings described1 the results of interesting experiments on the deformation of single crystals of mercury, and it is concluded that in a mercury crystal the rhombohedral faces are the glide planes—as (it was stated) would be expected from the fact that these are the planes of closest packing. Of many measurements that had been made of the intersection angles between glide and twinning plane traces, three sets in particular were considered to furnish strong confirmation of the above conclusion.
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Andrade, E. N. da C., and Hutchings, P. J., Proc. Roy. Soc., A, 148, 120 (1935).
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FISHER, A. Slip and Twinning in Single Crystals of Mercury. Nature 152, 567 (1943). https://doi.org/10.1038/152567a0
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