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FUKADA and others1–4 have demonstrated conclusively that dried bone exhibits piezoelectric properties, by direct observation of electrical potentials generated when a dried specimen of bone is stressed. The nature and source of the electrical potentials obtained from bone when it is stressed in vivo interested us, and we have investigated the general electrical properties of wet bone.
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ANDERSON, J., ERIKSSON, C. Piezoelectric Properties of Dry and Wet Bone. Nature 227, 491–492 (1970). https://doi.org/10.1038/227491a0
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