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 Strained normal piling implies that, although the shape of the medium is strained, so that the distances of the grains from their twelve neighbours are no longer equal—since the successive layers of grain in the normal piling instead of being flat are subject to slight spherical curvature—the strains are such as do not allow any change of neighbours; so that when the strain is removed each grain will find itself in normal piling with the same neighbours.



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