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Elastic properties of spider's capture silk

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  3. Clarendon Laboratory Parks Road, OX1 3PU, Oxford

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Vollrath, F., Edmonds, D. Elastic properties of spider's capture silk. Naturwissenschaften 82, 379–380 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01134565

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