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IN a letter to NATURE (May 22, 1926, p. 720), Messrs. W. E. Millington and F. C. Thompson have proposed a formula for the angle of a uniform wedge formed by the fracture of a single metallic crystal, which purports to be more general than that given by the writer in connexion with the fracture of tungsten single crystals (Phil. Mag., Aug. and Nov. 1924). By the use of this formula they consider it “possible to extract from the experimental results obtained on these single crystals of tungsten information with regard to the distance through which the atoms move and the number of planes involved which has hitherto remained unrealised.”
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GOUCHER, F. Plastic Deformation of Single Metallic Crystals. Nature 118, 157 (1926). https://doi.org/10.1038/118157a0
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