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WE report here on one of many anomalies which occur when drag-reducing polymers are dissolved in water1–4: the damping of manometer-type oscillations.
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MCCOMB, W. Drag-reducing polymers and liquid-column oscillations. Nature 251, 598–599 (1974). https://doi.org/10.1038/251598a0
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