ECHINODERM CALCITE: A MECHANICAL ANALYSIS FROM LARVAL SPICULES
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- 1 October 1982
- journal article
- research article
- Published by University of Chicago Press in The Biological Bulletin
- Vol. 163 (2) , 264-275
- https://doi.org/10.2307/1541265
Abstract
The flexural stiffness (EI) was measured for simple and fenestrated spicules in echinoid larvae. A Young's modulus (E) of 36.3 × 109 N/ m2 was estimated for...This publication has 5 references indexed in Scilit:
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