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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Nov 18, 1886

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 12, No. 44.

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Elasticity

ELASTICITY is not necessarily accompanied by compressibility, but seems to be due to a tendency in the particles to rearrange themselves after having been forced out of their relation to each other. India rubber is one of the most elastic substances known, but it is slightly, if at all, compressible. When immersed in water and submitted to a pressure of 1,000 pounds to the square inch, it is absolutely unchanged in bulk. Steel, which is very elastic, cannot be compressed by any pressure yet attainable.—Sel.