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TORSION of a metal tube within its limits of elasticity produces æolotropic stress, of which the mutually perpendicular lines of maximum extension and maximum contraction are spirals, each very nearly at 45° to the length of the tube.
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ON A NEW METHOD FOR DISCOVERING AND MEASURING ÆOLOTROPY OF ELECTRIC RESISTANCE PRODUCED BY ÆOLOTROPIC STRESS IN A SOLID 1 . Nature 18, 180–181 (1878). https://doi.org/10.1038/018180b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/018180b0