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IT has recently been reported1 that nylon and ‘Plexiglas’ plates, if subjected to a bending stress in a vice, will give rise to catastrophic failure if the point of greatest tension is treated with a drop of some suitable liquid. It was concluded that the cohesive forces in the plane of greatest tensile strain collapse via the action of wetting and adsorption processes.
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SHELDON, R. Catastrophic Failure of Stressed Polyethylene Terephthalate. Nature 194, 767–768 (1962). https://doi.org/10.1038/194767b0
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