Paper, 'On the plasticity of an ice crystal' by James C McConnel
Reference number: PP/16/25
Date: 1890
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McConnel writes: 'Two years ago in the "Proceedings of the Royal Society" was published an account of some experiments on the plasticity of ice made by Mr Kidd and myself [see PP/12/26]. We proved the oft-repeated statement, that glacier ice is not plastic under tension, to be erroneous, and, indeed, that an ordinary bar of ice composed of several crystals will yield continuously either to pressure or tension. But we found that a bar cut out of a single crystal with its length at right angles to the optic axis showed no signs of continuous stretching, even when subjected to half the breaking stress; and other experiments convinced us that an ice crystal will not change its shape under either tension or pressure applied at right angles to its optic axis.'
Annotations in pencil and ink.
Subject: Physics / Crystallography
Received 29 May 1890 / 4 July 1890. Read 19 June 1890. Communicated by Richard Tetley Glazebrook.
A version of this paper was published in volume 48 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'On the plasticity of an ice crystal. (Preliminary note.)'.
- Reference number
- PP/16/25
- Earliest possible date
- 1890
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- Ink and graphite pencil on paper
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- 3 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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James C McConnel
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James C McConnel, Paper, 'On the plasticity of an ice crystal' by James C McConnel, 1890, PP/16/25, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pp_16_25/paper-on-the-plasticity-of-an-ice-crystal-by-james-c-mcconnel, accessed on 05 November 2024
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VI. On the plasticity of an ice crystal. (Preliminary note.) External link, opens in new tab.
Date: 31st December 1891
DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1890.0036
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Paper, 'On the plasticity of glacier and other ice' by James C McConnel and Dudley A Kidd
Creator: James C McConnel, Dudley A Kidd Reference number: PP/12/26
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Scientific papers published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society volume 48, 1890
1890 Reference number: PP/16
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Richard Tetley Glazebrook
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