Basic Elasticity and viscoelasticity

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bonded structure and so broadly fall into the same class of material as metals and glasses. What happens when such materials are loaded, as when a muscle pulls on a bone, or when a shark crunches its way through its victim’s leg? In a material at equilibrium, in the unloaded state, the distance between adjacent atoms is 0.1 to 0.2 nm.

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