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The tensile strength of liquid helium II was measured by the spinning capillary method and by a piston and cylinder method. The first method gave a tensile strength of 0.14±{}0.02 atmos and the second about half as much. These values are smaller than that expected from the present theories of the tensile strength of liquids.
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