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Fibres dispersed in a liquid are observed to turn into the direction of an applied electric field. The effect is attributed to a difference of conductivity between fibre and liquid or, when both conductivities are very low, to a difference of dielectric constant. It is suggested that the effect might be used in microscopic examination of textiles.
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J.O. Isard (1955) studied this question.
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