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IN view of its bearing on the recent communication from Miss Little1, some simultaneous and independent work, initiated by Charlesby's claim to have crosslinked polyethylene terephthalate by pile irradiation2, is perhaps worth recording.
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Little, K., Nature, 173, 680 (1954).
Charlesby, A., Nature, 171, 167 (1953).
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TODD, A. Pile Irradiation of Polyethylene Terephthalate (‘Terylene’). Nature 174, 613 (1954). https://doi.org/10.1038/174613a0
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