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IN his interesting paper upon the “Mechanical Stretching of Liquids” (Phil. Trans. 1892, A, p. 370), Prof. Worthington describes a phenomenon of attraction between bodies immersed in a stretched liquid. His explanation is ingenious: that the close contact of the bodies liberates from a denser surface layer, liquid which will go to supply the prevailing demand, and so lower the energy of the stretched liquid.
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JOLY, J. Gravitation. Nature 51, 57–58 (1894). https://doi.org/10.1038/051057d0
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