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DURING the course of some current research1 on the growth and breaking strains of various needle crystals, it appeared that the elastic moduli of α-hydroquinone had not yet been measured, so far as we could ascertain. While a determination of all the elastic constants proved impracticable, we have measured the Young's modulus along the c-axis of the crystal, both by a simple cantilever method and in direct tension.
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GORDON, J., SEVILLE, A. & MARSH, D. Polymer-type Elasticity in Non-polymer Crystals. Nature 181, 1678 (1958). https://doi.org/10.1038/1811678a0
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