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SINCE the first reports of the electromechanical behaviour of bone1, the properties of bone as a physical material have attracted increasing attention. I now report some thermal expansion coefficients for animal bone and some calculations for the piezoelectric contribution to the pyroelectric effect at constant stress.
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LANG, S. Thermal Expansion Coefficients and the Primary and Secondary Pyroelectric Coefficients of Animal Bone. Nature 224, 798–799 (1969). https://doi.org/10.1038/224798a0
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