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The Philosophical Magazine: A Journal of Theoretical Experimental and Applied Physics
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Volume 22, 1970 - Issue 179
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The dispiration: A distinct new crystal defect of the weingarten-volterra type

W. F. Harris Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minn. 55455, U.S.A.; Department of Chemical Engineering, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
Pages 0949-0952 | Received 15 Jul 1970, Published online: 20 Aug 2006

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