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IT has recently been shown by Kassenbeck1 that drawn fibres of polyethylene terephthalate possess a surface skin, some 2500 A. in thickness. This was demonstrated by making two-stage polystyrene–silica replicas of carefully prepared sections, and photographing the replicas in the electron microscope. Kassenbeck also found that a replica taken from a region of a fibre from which the skin had been fortuitously removed revealed an unmistakable fine structure of oriented fibrils2. The apparent diameter of these fibrils varied between about 250 A. and 750 A.
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COBBOLD, A., DAUBENY, R., DEUTSCH, K. et al. Fine Structure in Polyethylene Terephthalate Fibres. Nature 172, 806 (1953). https://doi.org/10.1038/172806a0
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