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IT seems to be generally assumed that the application of tensile stress to a textile fibre should reduce the amount of absorbed water in equilibrium with water vapour in the atmosphere at a given value of the relative humidity1. This assumption would appear to be substantiated by the recent work of White and Stam2 on human hair, in which a substantially reversible reduction of water content amounting to 50 per cent was found to occur on the application of a tensile stress of approximately 120 kgm./cm.2.
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TRELOAR, L. Effect of Tension on Water Absorption by Hair. Nature 168, 521–522 (1951). https://doi.org/10.1038/168521b0
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