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LORD RAYLEIGH, in his letter published in NATURE of Mar. 1, directs attention to an experiment performed to answer the question, Do glass tubes or rods bend under their own weight? I have tried a similar experiment bearing on this subject, and the results may be of interest to readers of NATURE.
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SPENCER, C. Do Glass Tubes or Rods Bend under their own Weight?. Nature 125, 707 (1930). https://doi.org/10.1038/125707a0
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