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THE most important and conspicuous property of matter, namely, the strength of solid materials, the fundamental quantity for building, engineering and textile industries, has been hitherto completely unexplained; Prof. Fürth's results should remove physics from this embarrassing situation.
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BORN, M. Relation between Breaking and Melting. Nature 145, 741–742 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/145741b0
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